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The Senator was named for Florida State Senator Moses Overstreet, who donated the tree and surrounding land to Seminole County for a park in 1927. In 1929, former US President Calvin Coolidge reportedly visited The Senator and dedicated the site with a commemorative bronze plaque.
The tree — dubbed “The Senator” in 1927 after a state lawmaker donated the land on which it sits — was found at Big Tree Park in Longwood until 2012. It was considered the largest and oldest...
Thought to be the eighth-oldest tree in the world, the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) affectionately known as The Senator once stood in a small park in Longwood, Florida.
The Senator was named for Florida State Senator Moses Overstreet, who donated the tree and surrounding land to Seminole County for a park in 1927. In 1929, former US President Calvin Coolidge reportedly visited The Senator and dedicated the site with a commemorative bronze plaque.
"The Senator" cypress tree, considered to be the world's oldest at 3,500 years old, is seen here in a 1946 photograph. The tree was destroyed by fire in 2012.
The cypress tree known as “The Senator” and often referred to simply as the “Big Tree” certainly predated Walt Disney World and other current attractions. The Senator was located in Big Tree Park in Seminole County’s Spring Hammock Preserve, a small preserve in Longwood between Sanford and Orlando.
The Senator was the biggest and oldest bald cypress tree in the world, located in Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida. At the time of its demise in 2012, it was 125 feet (38 m) tall, with a trunk diameter of 17.5 feet (5.3 m).
In the 1920s, after thousands of nameless years the tree was christened “The Senator,” a regal name bestowed upon him honoring a Florida state senator who donated his land, on which the tree grew, to become a public park.
Confederation. Oliver Mowat attended the Québec Conference of October 1864 and was a very active participant. He is often credited as the delegate responsible for putting decisions made at the conference into constitutional and legal shape.
We have spent several years collaborating with Seminole County and local artists/woodworkers in order to preserve this historic tree. Please have a look around and see what the local artisans of Central Florida have helped create to remember the Senator.