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Listen: The World ProgramView showing the Big Oak at Highlands Hammock State Park near Sebring, Florida.
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Series 1047 ; Box 10
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The largest laurel oak in the state is approximately 1000 years old. It has a circumference of 36 feet measured 4.5 feet above the ground.
Opening in 1931, the park is one of the earliest examples of grass-roots public support for environmental preservation. Local citizens, with financial assistance of the Margaret Shippen Roebling family, acquired the property constructing trails and basic facilities in 1930. In 1934, a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp began working on a botanical garden project adjacent to Highlands Hammock Park. When Florida's state park system was established in 1935, Highlands Hammock became one of the first parks.
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