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White Oak is a small agricultural unincorporated community on the Potomac River in southeastern Stafford County in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is the hometown of Patawomeck chief Robert "Two Eagles" Green. He was an adviser to the filmmakers of The New World (2005). Green also appeared on Nova's episode "Pocahontas Revealed" as Chief Powhatan.
White Oak is situated on Farm to Market Road 2152, and is named after White Oak Creek. It began as a black farming community, and was connected to Piney, but were gradually divided by Piney Creek. Landowner George Baker was the probably the first settler. By 1984, the town had a school, two churches and a town hall.
White Oak is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 7,630 at the 2020 census. [3] It is a suburb of the Pittsburgh ...
The oak appears near the end of The Shawshank Redemption when Red (played by Morgan Freeman) follows clues left by Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins) to its location. Red finds a box buried at the base of a stone wall in the shade of the oak. [5] The box contains a letter from Andy and cash to buy a bus ticket to join him in Mexico. [3]
During the Civil War in November 1862, White Oak Church became the center, for seven months, of an encampment of the Army of the Potomac. Around 20,000 soldiers of the VI Corps camped in the immediate area. At this time, the church served as a military hospital, a United States Christian Commission station, and as a photographic studio. [4]
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