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Great links to the history and stories of the Wye Oak - The Sleeping Giant
The Quiet Giant, The Wye
Oak
Maryland's Wye Oak was long
recognized as the largest white oak tree in the nation. Its stately presence
in the village of Wye Mills in Talbot County had marked the passage of time
for many generations. Since beginning its quiet unassuming life in the 1500s,
it had seen the fall of a civilization and the birth of a nation. Native
Americans, believed to be the Wiccomisses, lived and hunted in the area. The
Choptank Trail, which ran down the east side of the Chesapeake Bay, traversing
the land from the head of one river to the next, was near the oak. This
ancient trail later developed into a road and as the tree grew, its boughs
provided shade for the early settlers as they traveled by. The road, which
eventually linked Oxford with Philadelphia, became an important cog in the
settlement of the Eastern Shore. ...the entire article is on this website
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/trees/giant.html
Mobilizing
To Preserve The Wye Oak ..
Link to the article
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/trees/giantfalls.html
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