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This English oak was grown from acorns gathered from a centuries-old oak on the island of Chortitza near Zaparozhye, Ukraine, at the site of a Mennonite settlement dating from 1789. The acorns were collected during the 1997 Mennonite Heritage Tour led by Harley Stucky and Oswald Goering. One of the resulting seedlings was planted on March 14, 2002, near a monument marking the centennial of the arrival of the Swiss Volbynian Mennonites in Kansas in 1874 and the establishment of the Hopefield Mennonite Church. Present at the planting were Delbert Goering, Jacob D. Goering, Victor Goering, Harly and Ruby Stucky, and Arnold Wedel.
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