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The William Adkins Live Oak

Crisp County · dedicated 1976 · At the intersection of Drayton Road and Gilbert Road, on the left when traveling west on Drayton Road in Cordele.

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Spreading its limbs over 100 feet, this Live Oak has comforted and delighted generations of visitors, passerby and owners of the William Adkins Plantation Home. The Crisp-Dooly Forestry Department measurerd this tree in 1976. It was 56 inches in diameter, over 15 feet in circumference and estimated to be over 160 years old. Marker Erected at Direction of House Resolution, Adopted March 5, 1976.

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