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Reese St st Waddell st Tree That Owns Itself Directions Write a review The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree, widely assumed to have legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base Wikipedia Address: South Finley Street, Athens, GA 30605, United States Reviews 4.3 ★★★★ 6 Google reviews giraffepoliceforce: vnicent: otteroftheworld My parents live in this town and the city legally can't tear the tree down to build or anything because the tree has its own legal rights and they can't do anything about it. how does. how does this happen. how DID this happen I love this story because this guy in the early 180o's had so many great childhood memories of this tree and wanted to make sure it was protected no matter what. So he deeded the ownership of the tree to itself and everyone just went with it. Then in 1942 this intense windstorm came and knocked the tree over. And people were bummed. But someone had saved an acorn from the original tree, so they planted that and now Son of the Tree That Owns Itself is over 50 feet tall And since this new tree is technically the offspring of the original tree it's considered to have legally inherited the plot of land it's inhabiting, Two generations of trees owning land is amazing and if you don't think this is the coolest thing get right out of my face.

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Platurt

Aug 23, 2015 at 06:20AM EDT

Checked it and it's kind of true. For once, the city ofc can tear down the tree anytime they want, not only cause trees can't have property but also cause there is no evidence of this except for a news article in 1980 and cause they guy who gave ownership to it didn't even own the space it stood on but the house next to it. Plus the guy who made this was son of the guvernor, which was propably the reason this whole thing worked out.

However, this got popular and this tree will stand for a while cause the story got pretty popular and it's good for tourism, so I guess he achieved what he wanted.

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