There was a white oak tree in Athens, GA, that was so treasured by the locals it was not owned by anyone, not even the city. It was an autonomous entity known as the The Tree that Owns Itself. Around the 1820s, William Jackson, owner of the property where the oak resided, wrote a formal deed in which he proclaimed, “[I]n consideration of the great love I bear this tree and the great desire I […]
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