What a great day, the weather was beautiful. We went on a field trip to see this amazing and beautiful tree. Standing under it is so amazing to look all around it and be in awe the strength it has. It’s gone through a hurricane and still stands. Below is a picture and some history on it. Enjoy the beauty.
Angel Oak is a live oak. It is native to the low country and is not very tall but has a wide spread canopy. Lumber from the live oak forests in the sea islands was highly valued for shipbuilding in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Angel Oak stands on part of Abraham Waight’s 1717 land grant. Mr. Waight owned several plantations.
Recorded history traces the ownership of the live oak and surrounding land, back to the year 1717 when Abraham Waight received it as part of a small land grant. The tree stayed in the Waight family for four generations, and was part of a Marriage Settlement to Justus Angel and Martha Waight Tucker Angel. In modern times, the Angel Oak has become the focal point of a public park. Today the live oak has a diameter of spread reaching 160 feet, a circumference of nearly 25 feet, and covers 17,100 square feet of ground.
The Angel Oak is thought to be one of the oldest living things east of the Mississippi River. Acorns from the Angel Oak have grown to produce authentic direct-offspring trees.. Live oaks generally grow out and not up, but the Angel Oak has had plenty of time to do both, standing 65 ft high and with a canopy providing 17,000 square feet of shade. Its limbs, the size of tree trunks themselves, are so large and heavy that some of them rest on the ground (some even drop underground for a few feet and then come back up), a feature common to only the very oldest live oaks. It has survived countless hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and human interference, so there’s a good chance it will still be there waiting for you.
Just beautiful!
What a fabulous tree! Awesome pics and the white squirrel is just gorgeous in the Angel Oak! TFS!!!
Wow! This is just amazing! Your son did a wonderful job with the pictures. TFS!
Absolutely gorgeous!!
I never heard of an Angel Oak. Thanks for sharing. I learned something tonight.
Wow! What great photos. I love trees and I’ve never seen a white squirrel either – fascinating!
This is just too cute, we don’t get squirrel’s in Australia….