NATURE · HISTORICAL MARKER

White Oak

Brandywine Park, Delaware
· Quercus alba
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Sweet acorns from white oak were a very important Native American food, and the wood was so strong that it protected the U.S.S. Constitution, Old Ironsides, from cannonballs during the Revolutionary War.
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Wilmington, Delaware · United States
Brandywine Park, Delaware
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