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The Joseph Jefferson House, also known as the Rip Van Winkle House and Gardens, the Live Oak Gardens, and the Bob Acres Plantation, is a historic house built in 1870 on Jefferson Island in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. The Joseph Jefferson House was built in 1870 for Joseph Jefferson, an American stage and silent film actor.
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park is a Florida State Park located near Palm Coast, Florida, along A1A. [2] The park is made up of 425 acres [ 3 ] and is most famous for its formal gardens, but it also preserves the original habitat of a northeast Florida barrier island .
Airlie Oak is a 500-year-old southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) located on the grounds of Airlie Gardens. In 1967, Airlie Oak was registered as member number 238 in the Live Oak Society . [ 8 ] In 2007, Airlie Oak was 128 feet (39 m) tall, had a trunk circumference exceeding 21 feet (6.4 m) and a crown spread of 104 feet (32 m) when ...
Live Oak is a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States. The population was 15,781 at the 2020 census. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Live Oak Park is situated here because of the many little creeks that flow from the Berkeley Hills the short way down to San Francisco Bay. These little creeks are more powerful than they look. As rising sea level filled the current Bay at the end of the last Ice Age, the creeks basically built what are now the flatlands, by carrying rock and ...
Friendship Oak is member number 110 at the Live Oak Society. The Live Oak Society is a membership organization for mature live oak trees.It was founded in 1934 to advance the culture, distribution, preservation, and appreciation of the southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) and functions under the auspices of the Louisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc. [1] [2] By 2013, more than 7,000 live oaks ...
Live oak was widely used in early American butt shipbuilding.Because of the trees' short height and low-hanging branches, lumber from live oaks was used in curved parts of the frame, such as knee braces (single-piece, L-shaped braces that spring inward from the side and support the deck), in which the grain runs perpendicular to structural stress, making for exceptional strength.
The Oak Park Conservatory was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on March 8, 2005. [1] Oak Park Conservatory. Marking its 90th anniversary in 2019, the Conservatory has installed solar panels on the roof to lower electricity costs and offset CO 2 emissions. Three beehives are now part of the conservatory, for pollination.