Inside the Fight to Save a 300-Year-Old Tree That Survived a Revolutionary War Battle
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A centuries-old “witness tree” that stood through a Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina is getting some much-needed care to help preserve it for generations to come. The 45-foot-tall live oak is located across the street from Eutaw Springs Battlefield Park, the site of the September 1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs, one of the final major battles of the Revolutionary War fought in the South.
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A centuries-old “witness tree” that stood through a Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina is getting some much-needed care to help preserve it for generations to come. The 45-foot-tall live oak is located across the street from Eutaw Springs Battlefield Park, the site of the September 1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs, one of the final major battles of the Revolutionary War fought in the South. “This tree quite literally would have been looking on to [the] central part of the fighting, but also the camp would have likely been placed around this tree,” Catherine Noyes, deputy director of land preservation for the nonprofit American Battlefield Trust, tells the Post and Courier’s Lydia Larsen. The tree withstood the bloody skirmish, and 50 years ago it survived a lightning strike—but only with the help of heavy chains and steel cables wrapped tightly around its trunk and branches.
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- A centuries-old “witness tree” that stood through a Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina is getting some much-needed care to help preserve it for generations to come. The 45-foot-tall live oak is located across the street from Eutaw Springs Battlefield Park, the site of the September 1781 Battle of Eutaw Springs, one of the final major battles of the Revolutionary War fought in the South.
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