Local tradition holds that a University of Georgia professor loved this white oak so much that he deeded ownership of the tree and surrounding land to the tree itself. The original tree fell in 1942; the present tree was grown from one of its acorns and continues the beloved legal-fiction legend.
Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
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