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The Tree That Owns Itself

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Jez Burrows
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Date
17 April 2007

Or, more correctly, Son of The Tree That Owns Itself. Found in Athens, Georgia, the tree has legal ownership of itself and all ground within 8ft of its base after being left to itself in the will of Colonel William Henry Jackson.

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