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More than 2,000 gathered to watch one of West Virginia’s greatest trees fall

HOLDEN, W.Va. — More than 2,000 people crowded onto a mountainside in southern West Virginia on Sept. 23, 1938, to watch lumbermen pull a nine-foot saw through one of the largest white oaks ever documented in America. The Mingo Oak, as it was known, was already dead. What followed was not merely a logging operation ...
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West Virginia Explorer broke the news on Friday, September 18, 2026.
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