Through its twisting canopy, the Treaty Oak is older than Jacksonville and older than any building that surrounds it now.
“We know [it’s] 250 [years old] at least, and there’s talk the Native Americans used it as a gathering place. It could easily be 400 years old,” said Sons of the American Revolution, Jacksonville Chapter Registrar Chuck Salestrom.
Members of the Sons of the American Revolution can track their lineage back to people who participated in the Revolution…