charter oak

     

The Charter Oak was an unusually large white oak tree growing, from aroun the 12th or 13th century until 1856, on what the English colonists named Wyllys Hill, in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Trivia about charter oak

  • When Connecticut's Lieutenant Governor presides over the state senate, he sits in a chair made of wood of this tree
  • Connecticut has this specific tree on its state quarter

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