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 250 years old, formed the basis of the university's logo. It bore the name, Arsenal Oak, because the university's campus was once an army arsenal - Augusta Arsenal. 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.