This is a historic oak growing since the revolutionary war era (late 1700's). During the Civil War (mid 1800's) it was renamed as the Turner Oak; in the 1990's it received this accolade:


Why designated the Turner Oak:

Beautiful shots J! I love the big old live oaks! We have a small botanical gardens here in town with quite a few very old, large oaks around the grounds; one is also known as a Confederate Oak; legend has it that confederate soldiers frequently camped beneath it during the civil war. There are lots of Bromeliads growing around and on the trees and a few years ago they had to erect a fence around some of them to keep people from trampling and destroying the broms and climbing the oaks.

Thanks Lin.
Ft Worth has a Civil War museum not far from my brother in law, visiting it is on our next itinerary.

I love visiting old cemeteries and reading the headstones ... when legible.