https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25 Made with whimsy en-us 2022-03-01 17:35:51 UTC 2022-03-01 18:32:09 UTC hello@padlet.com jsmith6040 https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2071982004 Most influential in the South.]]> 2022-03-01 17:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2071982004 jsmith6040 https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2072002308 A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here ’s health and renown to his broad green crown,
And his fifty arms so strong.
There ’s fear in his frown when the sun goes down,
And the fire in the west fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storm through his branches shout.

]]> 2022-03-01 17:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2072002308 jsmith6040 https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2072055016 Abraham Lincoln found his way across a river near Homer, Illinois, using the Salt River Ford Oak as a marker. 

Andrew Jackson took shelter under Louisiana’s Sunnybrook Oaks on his way to the Battle of New Orleans.]]> 2022-03-01 18:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2072055016 jsmith6040 https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2072065035 The mighty oak tree was voted the United States' favorite tree in a National Arbor Day Foundation poll taken in 2001.

A Congressional passage and a presidential signing of a historic bill made the oak tree the official national tree of the United States in late 2004. ]]> 2022-03-01 18:30:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2072065035 jsmith6040 https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2072068573 https://www.treehugger.com/oak-is-official-us-national-tree-1343438]]> 2022-03-01 18:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jsmith6040/ie1huh8yv87dad25/wish/2072068573