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This white oak, one of the oldest in N.J., was already about 80 feet tall on May 4, 1681, when two Lenni-Lenape Indian chiefs sold the 5000 acres on which Bound Brook now stands to New Jersey governor Phillip Carteret and seven other men. The tree was a landmark during the Revolutionary War when General George Washington and his troops were encamped a mile away at Middle Brook in 1778-79.
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Bound Brook, New Jersey · United States
