On September 23, 1938, the Mingo Oak, estimated to date before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, was cut down.
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"Mingo County White Oak Will be Felled Friday"
"They Cut Down The Great White Oak Of Mingo
County"
Correspondence, Emmett Keadle and Governor William
Conley, Regarding the Mingo Oak
On This Day in West Virginia History: September