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Historic Statesboro tree’s crash close call for Savannah Avenue neighbors

‘Honey’s house’ oak thought to have been 150 years old

Charles Townsend is shown standing next to the massive red oak tree that fell Sept. 3 at the Savannah Avenue address of the Townsends' next-door neighbors Wanda and Bennie Lee. - photo by PHOTO COURTESY NINA TOWNSEND

tree — Charles Townsend is shown standing next to the massive red oak tree that fell Sept. 3 at the Savannah Avenue address of the Townsends' next-door neighbors Wanda and Bennie Lee. - photo by PHOTO COURTESY NINA TOWNSEND

A huge, more than century-old oak at a Savannah Avenue house with historic local connotations collapsed two weeks ago, crushing a truck on a neighboring home’s driveway minutes after a man and his teenage son had gotten out.

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