“Angel Oak,” an ancient Southern live oak, is about 500 years old. It lives on Johns Island near Charleston, SC and is named from the Angel family plantation. Angel, an African American, was a landowner, and a slave owner, something seldom acknowledged in history books.
The Angel Oak reaches a height of more than 65 feet, has an astonishing trunk with a circumference of about 28 feet and provides shade for an area over of 17,00 square feet.