It also gave impetus to the never-ending treasure hunts conducted on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, in Suffolk County, Long Island in New York where Gardiner's Island is located, Charles Island in Milford, Connecticut ; the Thimble Islands in Connecticut and on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.

Still other stories claim that a secret line of hereditary protectors keep the Grail, or that it was hidden by the Templars in Oak Island, Nova Scotia's famous " Money Pit ", while local folklore in Accokeek, Maryland says that it was brought to the town by a closeted priest aboard Captain John Smith's ship.

Population centers of Whidbey Island include the City of Oak Harbor, the Town of Coupeville, the City of Langley, the Village of Freeland, the Community of Greenbank, the Village of Clinton and the Community of Bayview.

Whidbey Island is divided economically into two different regions: the northern end of the island ( encompassing Oak Harbor and Whidbey Island Naval Air Station ), and the remainder of the island ( encompassing Coupeville, Greenbank, Freeland, Langley, Clinton and the smaller communities in-between ).

The economy of the northern end of Whidbey Island is strongly influenced by the presence of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Oak Harbor ( N. A. S.

The economy of Whidbey Island south of Oak Harbor relies heavily on tourism, small-scale agriculture, and the arts.

* Whidbey Island Race Week-Week long sailing regatta every summer based out of Oak Harbor with daily racing in Penn Cove and / or Saratoga Passage ( depending on wind conditions ).

Kenmore Air Express restarted scheduled airline service to Whidbey Island in 2006, serving the Oak Harbor airport.

The largest is a two-runway airport located at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station north of Oak Harbor.

* Daniel McGinnis discovers the supposed Money Pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia.

The Northern Red Oak is the provincial tree of Prince Edward Island, as well as the state tree of New Jersey.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

* Oak Bluffs Harbor ( year-round transportation to Falmouth, Massachusetts and seasonal transportation to Hyannis and Nantucket, Massachusetts, Quonset Point, Rhode Island )

Dulwich, consisting of East Dulwich, West Dulwich and Dulwich Village lies in a valley between the neighbouring districts of Camberwell, Crystal Palace, Denmark Hill, Forest Hill, Gipsy Hill, Knights Hill, Herne Hill, Honor Oak, Peckham, Penge, Sydenham Hill, Tulse Hill and West Norwood.

The entire village of Oak Park lies on the shore of ancient Lake Chicago, which covered most of the city of Chicago during the last Ice Age, and is today called Lake Michigan.

The smaller of the two is spanned by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Bridge, which lies wholly within Oak Bluffs, and the larger by the American Legion Bridge, the midpoint of which is the boundary between Oak Bluffs and Edgartown.

Three and a half miles north of the village lies Branched Oak State Recreation Area, the largest of the Salt Valley Lakes.

The unincorporated community of Whitmore Lake lies within the northern portion of the township, on its border with Green Oak township in Livingston County.

The Oak Ridge Military Academy National Historic District lies within the Oak Ridge District.

Nicetown lies to the south and Logan, Ogontz, and West Oak Lane lie to the east.

A former spa town, Matlock ( from the Old English for Moot Oak ) lies on the River Derwent, and has prospered from both the hydrotherapy industry and the mills constructed on the river and its tributary Bentley Brook.

Meanwhile with the aid of King Ethelbert, Augustine summoned the bishops and teachers to a conference at a place still known to the English as Augustine's Oak, which lies on the border between the Hwiccas and the West Saxons.

Jones Island lies seven miles northeast of Bear Island at the mouth of White Oak River.

Most of Kings Norton lies within Kings Norton ward which is part of Birmingham, Northfield and are represented by Richard Burden although some parts of Kings Norton lie within Birmingham, Selly Oak and are represented by Steve McCabe.

It lies on top of the cavernous Honor Oak Reservoir, constructed between 1901 and 1909.

Sellbot HQ At the end of Oak street of Daisy Gardens lies Sellbot HQ ( abbreviated SBHQ ) which was released on December 19, 2003.

The Oak Pond ( Bukový rybník ), with a surface area of 5 ha, lies almost 1 km northwest of the town.

Poverty Ridge and Oak Ridge lie to the east of Calaveras Reservoir, Milpitas and Monument Peak lie to the west, Sunol lies to the far north, and Calaveras Creek and Los Buellis Hills lie to the south.

Referred to as " Pine Valley " in the 70s because of all the pine trees, the Lower Haight lies generally along Haight Street east of Divisadero Street, and between Oak Street ( or Fell Street ) on the north, and Duboce Avenue on south.

It lies entirely within the valley of the Holland River, stretching from the northern edge of the Oak Ridges Moraine near Schomberg to the river mouth at Cook's Bay, Lake Simcoe.

Along the park's northern edge lies Horse Close wood, a small patch of old planted woodland, largely consisting of Ash and Oak.

The Oak Ridges Moraine lies in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Moreover, some of the zones listed may only have some portion of their complex on the Oak Ridges Moraine ; for example, a small southern component of the Ansnorveldt Wetland Complex lies on the northern edge of the Oak Ridges Moraine.

The area around Oak Road and Moat Lane near the station lies within a conservation area, including the locally listed Railway Tavern ( 1a Moat Lane ).

-- Three positions on the Oak Lodge Water district board of directors have attracted 11 candidates.

All of these names are recorded on a war memorial, an imposing white stone cenotaph, which stands in Oak Hill Park in the south of the town.

In 2006, the Berkeley Oak Grove Protest began protesting construction of a new sports center annex to Memorial Stadium at the expense of a grove of oak trees on the UC campus.

The highest point in Concord is above sea level on Oak Hill, just west of the hill's summit in neighboring Loudon.

Rogers was born on January 8, 1902, in the suburban Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago.

Bonewits was born on October 1, 1949 in Royal Oak, Michigan, as the fourth of five children.

He and his wife lived in Oak Hill, Virginia, until Elizabeth's death on September 23, 1830.

Almost all of the of the U. S. federal government / NASA owned property that makes up the JPL campus is today located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge, California, on the northwest border of Pasadena, with a La Cañada Flintridge address ( 4800 Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011 ).

Although a lead vocalist named O ' Dean was auditioned, Lee had known Vince Neil from their high school days at Charter Oak High School in Covina, California and the two had performed in different bands on the garage band circuit.

* 1991 – In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.

The Major Oak was featured on the 2005 BBC TV programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the natural wonders of the Midlands.

He grew up on " Oak Hill ", his father's tobacco plantation of several hundred acres which was located southeast of downtown Washington, D. C., and which was worked by 89 slaves.

* A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory led by Charles Coryell discovers chemical element 61, the only one still missing between 1 and 96 on the periodic table, which they will name promethium.

In 1984 Hampton University dedicated a Booker T. Washington Memorial on campus near the historic Emancipation Oak, establishing, in the words of the University, " a relationship between one of America's great educators and social activists, and the symbol of Black achievement in education.

Both the laboratory and the nearby city of Oak Ridge were built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in less than a year on isolated farmland in the mountains of East Tennessee.

Oak planking was common on high status Viking longships in the 9th and 10th centuries.

Oak powdery mildew on pedunculate oak

Oak apples are galls on oaks made by the gall wasp.

Oak branches on the coat of arms of Estonia

After the service, Washington was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery on the South Side of Chicago.