Wye Oak State Park

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Wye Oak in September 1929
The one-room school building, 2009

The Wye Oak State Park is located on the State Route 662 in Wye Mills in Talbot County of the US state of Maryland . In the 11.7 hectare state park was the eponymous Wye Oak , which was destroyed on June 6, 2002 by a thunderstorm.

The Wye Oak was the largest specimen of an American white oak in the USA. The 460 year old tree had a trunk circumference of 9.65 m, a height of 29.26 m and a crown diameter of 36 m. Since the 1940s, more than 90 m of steel cables have been used for stabilization. In 1941 the tree was named the State Tree of Maryland and was the first single tree that a state had purchased from private individuals for protection.

The state park was established in 1939 and still contains a historic brick building. It housed a school with only one classroom. This second oldest school building in Talbot County was restored by the Queen Anne Garden Club . A new sapling of an American white oak was planted in the place of the former tree .

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Coordinates: 38 ° 56 '8.8 "  N , 76 ° 5' 33"  W.