550-year-old Long Island oak tree falls

I wish I'd known about this tree--I would have gone to see it. Too late now, I guess.

An oak tree that stood in a Long Island village for about 550 years has fallen.

Lloyd Harbor's Big Oak was believed to be the oldest black oak tree in North America. Lloyd Harbor's mayor says the tree split in half and fell early Sunday. The cause was Tropical Storm Ernesto.

Incredibly:

Earlier this year some of its limbs were cut off and used to make a table that sits in the Lloyd Harbor village hall boardroom.

Link: 13WHAM-TV || Rochester - 550-year-old Long Island oak tree falls.