The Big Oak
Thomasville, Georgia

Thomasville, Georgia’s Big Oak is located on public property and was enrolled in 1936 in the National Live Oak Society.  When the tree became available for purchase in 1966, farsighted city officials contributed half the purchase price while an anonymous donor provide the balance.  

President Eisenhower was so impressed with the Big Oak tree that he personally photographed it. 

Middleton Oak
Charleston, South Carolina

One of the earliest landscaped gardens in the American colonies was designed in 1740 at Middleton Place, a large plantation northwest of Charleston, South Carolina. Legend has it that the Middleton Live Oak was originally an Indian “trail tree,” tied to the ground as a sapling to mark favorite lands.  

The current owners of Middleton have a crypt in the tree’s trunk where their remains will be interred.