Halfway Oak LbNA #73348
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Add Location| Owner: | Silver Eagle
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| Plant date: | Sep 7, 2018 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Breckenridge |
| County: | Stephens |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Status: | a |
| Last edited: | Sep 19, 2018 |
*** Part of my Famous Trees Of TX Series ***
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (flat, 20 yards RT)
Status: alive
Texans are fortunate to have such a rich and colorful historic heritage and trees which serve as witnesses to some of these historic events. Texas has also been blessed with trees famous for being the largest of their kind in America. "Famous Trees Of Texas" is a book written in 1970 (and updated in 2015) by the Texas Forest Service that describes these trees, and this series will take you to some of them.
This old live oak lies roughly halfway between Breckenridge to the north and Cisco to the south and served as a rest stop on the original Fort Griffin to Stephenville stage coach passage. Its location is noted on maps as early as 1858 and may well have sheltered Doc Holliday or Wyatt Earp. In the 1970s the tree was scheduled to be removed for the widening of US Hwy 183, but the citizens of Breckenridge refused to allow the tree to be cut. Instead, a few picnic tables and nice highway pull-off were added, so you can enjoy the oak while looking for this box.
Directions:
Go south on US 183 about 13 miles to picnic area on left and park by tree.
Clues:
Walk left along red pipe to where it is broken and look inside the end about 6" for LB behind a rock.
Hike length: 0.1 miles
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (flat, 20 yards RT)
Status: alive
Texans are fortunate to have such a rich and colorful historic heritage and trees which serve as witnesses to some of these historic events. Texas has also been blessed with trees famous for being the largest of their kind in America. "Famous Trees Of Texas" is a book written in 1970 (and updated in 2015) by the Texas Forest Service that describes these trees, and this series will take you to some of them.
This old live oak lies roughly halfway between Breckenridge to the north and Cisco to the south and served as a rest stop on the original Fort Griffin to Stephenville stage coach passage. Its location is noted on maps as early as 1858 and may well have sheltered Doc Holliday or Wyatt Earp. In the 1970s the tree was scheduled to be removed for the widening of US Hwy 183, but the citizens of Breckenridge refused to allow the tree to be cut. Instead, a few picnic tables and nice highway pull-off were added, so you can enjoy the oak while looking for this box.
Directions:
Go south on US 183 about 13 miles to picnic area on left and park by tree.
Clues:
Walk left along red pipe to where it is broken and look inside the end about 6" for LB behind a rock.
Hike length: 0.1 miles