'It’s very rare to have a witness tree': Arborists try to save tree that dates to 50 years before Revolutionary War | Fortune

Preservationists are working to extend the life of a rare Revolutionary War ‘witness tree’

EUTAW SPRINGS, S.C. (AP) — Standing beneath the spreading branches of a massive live oak, historian Garrison Marcoux tries to imagine what this scarred, struggling tree saw 245 years ago.