The tree is 75-foot high with hanging Spanish moss and is estimated to be 350-400 years old. It is located in an oak forest just off SC-46 and is on a private development known as Stock Farm. There are several private developments around Bluffton and therefore, very rich folk.
Emmett McCracklin, owner of Stock Farm Antiques, former owner of the land, will be happy to direct you to it, saying that most people just drive by it.
Bluffton has a lot of history, but also is usually passed by by people heading by on US-278 to the rich enclaves of Hilton Head.
The Bluffton Historic District is a square mile of old shops and homes.
Mighty Old Tree With a Lot of History. --Old Secesh
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
The Tree Where the Confederacy Took Root
From the January 20, 2013, Chucago Tribune by Mike Conklin.
Well, it's in Bluffton S.C.. I've been there on several occasions, but never knew about it.
Some people say the fiery rhetoric that led to the war "started almost twenty years earlier under the limbs of a giant oak tree that today stands unmarked and most unnoticed."
The Secession tree is to be found in this Low Country (if you ever go there you have to try a Low Country Boil) town. Here, "on July 31, 1844, a crowd heard U.S. Representative Robert Barnwell Rhett proclaim it was time to consider separation from the Union." I wonder if he is any relation to Rhett Butler?
The site is regarded as South Carolina's first steps in a movement to secede from the United States.
Maybe we should call it the Old Secesh Tree?
More to Come. --Old Secesh
Well, it's in Bluffton S.C.. I've been there on several occasions, but never knew about it.
Some people say the fiery rhetoric that led to the war "started almost twenty years earlier under the limbs of a giant oak tree that today stands unmarked and most unnoticed."
The Secession tree is to be found in this Low Country (if you ever go there you have to try a Low Country Boil) town. Here, "on July 31, 1844, a crowd heard U.S. Representative Robert Barnwell Rhett proclaim it was time to consider separation from the Union." I wonder if he is any relation to Rhett Butler?
The site is regarded as South Carolina's first steps in a movement to secede from the United States.
Maybe we should call it the Old Secesh Tree?
More to Come. --Old Secesh
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