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Friendship Oak

Long Beach, MS

A massive live oak on the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park campus estimated to be centuries old and wrapped in local traditions about friendship and good fortune. Its enormous low limbs make it feel almost architectural rather than simply botanical.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: usm.edu/gulf-park/friendship-oak.php

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