Jacksonville's Treaty Oak
by W Chris Fooshee
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Jacksonville's Treaty Oak
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W Chris Fooshee
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Jacksonville Florida’s Treaty Oak is a massive 250-year-old Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) whose trunk is more than 25 feet in circumference, is 70 feet tall, and spreads over 145 feet in the city’s Jessie Ball DuPont 7-acre (2.8 ha) park. However, no treaty was ever signed under Treaty Oak as it was the invention of a well-intentioned newspaper writer during the early 1900’s when the land around the massive live oak was targeted by developers. To rescue it from destruction, a local reporter wrote an article in the early 1930s claiming that native Floridians and early settlers had signed a treaty at the site
The treaty was supposedly between Andrew Jackson and Chief Osceola of the Seminoles, though Jackson never set foot in Jacksonville. However, the name stuck much to the consternation of historians, and “Treaty Oak” became a city landmark.
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July 22nd, 2022
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