Arsenal Oak

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The Arsenal Oak was a White oak tree located at the center of the campus of Augusta State University in Augusta, Georgia, United States. The oak tree, which was estimated to be over 400 years old, was a central landmark in the Augusta Arsenal, for which the oak was named. The oak served as a model for the logo of Augusta State University. It is said that the poet Stephen Vincent Benét (the author of John Brown's Body and The Devil and Daniel Webster sat beneath the branches of the Arsenal Oak as a boy as he wrote his poetry. His father Colonel J. Walker Benét was stationed at the Arsenal.

Despite a decade long effort to save the Arsenal Oak from wood borers and hypoxylon canker, the diseased tree was removed in July of 2004.