The Tree that’s Older than America. Located in Angel Oak Park on John’s Island near Charleston, South Carolina, is this Southern live oak (Scientific Name: Quercus virginiana). Its age is approximately between 400 and 500 years old, although other experts declared that the tree could be 1,500 years old. This oak is 65 feet in height and provides more than 17,000 sq. ft. of shade. It has outlived so many generations and survived countless natural disasters and human interference. It was given the

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