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Live Oak is a former plantation in Weyanoke, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States.The Live Oak Plantation House is one of the first houses in the Felicianas, built in 1808 with Spanish-influenced architecture, [2] predating the American annexation of the Republic of West Florida in 1810.
Maryland is a neighbourhood in Stratford in London, United Kingdom.It is in the London Borough of Newham.The community centres around Maryland Station and borders Leytonstone to the north, Stratford New Town to the west and Forest Gate to the east, with Stratford town centre to the south-west.
The Read's store in downtown Baltimore (at Lexington St. and Howard St.) was the site of one of the country's first anti-segregation sit-ins.Students at Morgan State University joined up with a local chapter of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) to conduct a demonstration on January 20, 1955.
The fox squirrel (Sciurus niger), also known as the eastern fox squirrel or Bryant's fox squirrel, [3] is the largest species of tree squirrel native to North America.Despite the differences in size and coloration, it is sometimes mistaken for American red squirrels or eastern gray squirrels in areas where the species co-exist.
Treaty Oak: Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) Jacksonville: FL US An octopus-like southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in Jacksonville, Florida. It is estimated to be 250 years old and is located in Treaty Oak Park in the Southbank area of Downtown Jacksonville. Treaty Oak: Plateau live oak (Quercus fusiformis) Austin: TX US
Oak Hall is a historic slave plantation home located in Columbia, Howard County, Maryland. Oak Hall was built as a sister house to the Waveland Manor built by Richard Dorsey in 1809 on a land grant named New Year's Gift which contained the 1732 Dorsey Family estate Elkhorn. The brick manor house featured 19 rooms and nine fireplaces.
The lieutenant governor of Maryland is the second highest-ranking official in the executive branch of the state government of Maryland in the United States. The officeholder is elected on the same ticket as the governor of Maryland and must meet the same qualifications. The current lieutenant governor is Aruna Miller, who took office on January ...
The Major Oak in December 2006 Book illustration of the Major Oak in 1879 In 2003, in Dorset a plantation was started of 260 saplings grown from acorns of the Major Oak. [ 5 ] The purpose was to provide publicity for an internet-based study of the Major Oak, its history, photographic record, variation in size and leafing of the saplings ...