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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 412110, member: 5454&quot;]Actually the image used may not represent the mighty oak correctly.&nbsp; The charter oak was a 500 year old white oak in 1687 when Capt. Joseph Wadsworth hid the charter in a cavity of the tree.</p><p>White oaks do not loose all their leaves in fall/winter.&nbsp; It&#039;s not until the new leaves start to grow in the spring that they push off the last year&#039;s leaves.</p><p>Red oaks do shed their leaves in the fall.&nbsp; Everyone does know the story of the Charter Oak right?</p><p>King Charles the 2nd gave Connecticut a royal charter in 1622.&nbsp; 25 years later the Brittish representatives under King James the 2nd attempted to take it back.&nbsp; Sir Edmund Andrews arrived at Butler&#039;s tavern and the debate started.&nbsp; During the back and forth debate about the charter someone extinguished all the candles rendering the room pitch black.&nbsp; Capt. Wadsworth was outside when he was handed the charter.&nbsp; He promptly rode away and hid it in the white oak.&nbsp; The famous tree lived on another 150 years.&nbsp; It blew down during a summer storm in 1856.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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