500 Year Old Clement Oak Tree, Deptford New Jersey (AXIS VIDEO)
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500 Year Old Clement Oak Tree, Deptford New Jersey (AXIS VIDEO)
The Clement Oak is a huge, historic white oak tree, located in Deptford, New Jersey and is believed to have sprouted between 1555 and 1615. Located along the Big Timber Creek and behind the Wal-Mart, the land once belonged to the Clement family. In 2001, the girth of the tree was measured at 4.5. The estimated height is 90 feet with an overall spread of over 100 feet.
The Clement Oak has been known to the Lenape, and to have been noticed by the first European settlers, as it served as a reference point in early land surveys. According to local lore, native pow wows were held there, and a treaty between settlers and the Lenape was signed beneath its branches.
The Clement Oak was the site of the landing of the first aerial flight in the New World, a 1793 balloon flight. On January 9, 1793, Jean-Pierre Blanchard took off from Philadelphia and landed in Deptford at the Clement Oak. During his flight, Blanchard carried a personal letter from George Washington to be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard landed on, making the flight the first delivery of air mail in the United States as well. A plaque at the tree commemorates the balloon flight.
A second plaque commemorates the tree itself, which reads "The Clement Oak, which sheltered Lenape hunters 4 centuries ago and children at play in later years, is dedicated during the tercentenary of New Jersey as symbolic of the state's continuing growth: Gloucester County Historical Society July 1964."
Narrator
Eileen
"Almost in F"
"Lightless Dawn"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2019 Axis Video
The Clement Oak is a huge, historic white oak tree, located in Deptford, New Jersey and is believed to have sprouted between 1555 and 1615. Located along the Big Timber Creek and behind the Wal-Mart, the land once belonged to the Clement family. In 2001, the girth of the tree was measured at 4.5. The estimated height is 90 feet with an overall spread of over 100 feet.
The Clement Oak has been known to the Lenape, and to have been noticed by the first European settlers, as it served as a reference point in early land surveys. According to local lore, native pow wows were held there, and a treaty between settlers and the Lenape was signed beneath its branches.
The Clement Oak was the site of the landing of the first aerial flight in the New World, a 1793 balloon flight. On January 9, 1793, Jean-Pierre Blanchard took off from Philadelphia and landed in Deptford at the Clement Oak. During his flight, Blanchard carried a personal letter from George Washington to be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard landed on, making the flight the first delivery of air mail in the United States as well. A plaque at the tree commemorates the balloon flight.
A second plaque commemorates the tree itself, which reads "The Clement Oak, which sheltered Lenape hunters 4 centuries ago and children at play in later years, is dedicated during the tercentenary of New Jersey as symbolic of the state's continuing growth: Gloucester County Historical Society July 1964."
Narrator
Eileen
"Almost in F"
"Lightless Dawn"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2019 Axis Video