The work also describes traditional religious practices at the oak of Mamre as though they were still happening, while they are known to have been suppressed soon after 325, when a church was built on the site.

An important ecological site, Toledo sits within the borders of a sandy oak savanna called the Oak Openings Region that once took up over.

In the Bible, the oak tree at Shechem is the site where Jacob buries the foreign gods of his people ( Gen. 35: 4 ).

Large white oak at old house site

Work at the former British Gypsum site in Church Manorway by the Museum of London Archaeological Service showed that the area had a dense forest of oak, yew and alder during the Neolithic Period, which by the Bronze Age had given way in part to sedge fen.

Its name originates from a " lone oak " tree that stood on the site of the present county seat ; the red oak tree was used as a local landmark by a railroad surveyor.

Sharp journeyed west from Ohio with his young family and chose the site of Walnut Grove because of the abundant walnut and oak forests in the area.

This oak forest was later the site of a Spanish Jesuit Mission, and was subsequently abandoned before the 1830s.

This place was the site of an ancient oak tree which was notched by the Indians after each scalping.

There was a healthy growth of timber, especially on the west, north and south sides of the site which included oak, hickory, walnut and other trees suitable for making building materials.

F. W. Kent County Park is located just to the west of Tiffin, and is a popular site for outdoor recreation in Johnson County, being noted for its lake, camping facilities, resident whitetail deer herd and wild turkeys, and its cross-country ski trails through rolling acres of oak and hickory forest.

The town re-incorporated in 1907 as Oak Bluffs, named because the town was the site of an oak grove along the bluffs overlooking Nantucket Sound.

Local oral history, not known to have been published, records that Inkpaduta camped at the " lone oak " adjacent to the lake, and that the same site became the pioneer home of the Peter ( sometimes ' Peters ') family, still to this day the most-ancient still-surviving European-American family identified with the town of Heron Lake.

The building materials being hewed and sawed from the oak and walnut timber surrounding the town, as timber originally covered the site.

The Oak Ballroom, completed by the Works Progress Administration in 1937 and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built using dozens of native oak trees hauled to the building site from the nearby Platte River using horse and buggies.

The settlement took its name from a landmark tree, as the deed description reads, " Beginning at a black oak on the bank of the Allegheny River ..." The borough is best known for the nearby Oakmont Country Club, a premier golf course which has been the site of numerous U. S. Opens.

The Llano River location was chosen in an election held on June 14, 1856, under a live oak on the south bank of the river, near the present site of Roy Inks Bridge in Llano.

Oakley's original name was " Oak Creek ", derived from the name of a creek that ran just east of the present town site and that was thickly overgrown with oak trees.

The area selected was a beautiful one with plentiful oak trees ( which is probably where Oaks got its name from ) and a spring creek ( today called Spring Creek ), and the site was on the military road from Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, to St. Louis, Missouri.

A memorial has been erected at the site of an old oak tree and there is a rumor that Amelia was buried just down the hill from where their house once stood, just down the road from Kennefick Veterinary clinic ( which now borders the Enterprise Products gas storage facility ).

The most important factors determining site quality for black oak are the thickness and texture of the A horizon, texture of the B horizon, aspect, and slope position.

The site consisted of an outer ring comprising fifty-five small split oak trunks forming a roughly circular enclosure around.

This is the site of the oak tree known as The Old Master.

The expression " the Grove of Academe " refers to the sacred site of Hekademos where the cult had once taken place in an olive grove sacred to Athena.

A grove sacred to the goddess was used as the site of a famous meeting of the leaders of the Latin towns with the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, at the beginning of his reign.

The site has survived to the present day in the form of a grove, included within the gardens of Villa Sciarra.

Numa had established a bronze shrine at the fountain in their grove, the site of his divine union with Egeria.

Francisco lost his mansion to foreclosure in 1901, but even though Jose, his brother, died in the same year, his family retained his mansion and property, including the olive grove, and it was considered the Estudillo Estate, becoming the site of many family events, and a couple of family burials, until it was sold in 1919.

In 1194 there is a reference to the town as being called Nametwihc, which would indicate it was once the site of a pre-Roman Celtic nemeton or sacred grove.

Outside of the central camp area which is the site of the old-growth grove, but within the owned by the Bohemian Club, logging activities have been underway since 1984.

* USNA Official grove site

Hired by Walt Disney in 1953, Wood was the person who selected the orange grove site in Anaheim, California, where Disneyland was eventually built.

The Lucus Feroniae, or " grove of Feronia " ( Fiano Romano ) was the site of an annual festival in her honour, which was in the nature of a trade fair.

Egeria as a nymph or minor goddess of the Roman religious system is of unclear origin ; she is consistently, though not in a very clear way, associated with another figure of the Diana type ; their cult is known to have been celebrated at sacred groves, such as the site of Nemi at Aricia, and another one close to Rome, expedient for her presumed regular meetings with King Numa ; both goddesses are also associated with water gifted with wondrous, religious or medical properties ( the source in that grove at Rome was dedicated to the exclusive use of the Vestals ); their cult was associated with other, male figures of even more obscure meaning, such as one named Virbius, or a Manius Egerius, presumably a youthful male, that anyway in later years was identified with figures like Atys or Hippolyte, because of the Diana reference ( see Frazer ).

Egeria may predate Roman myth: she could have been of Italic origin in the sacred forest of Aricia in Latium, her immemorial site, which was equally the grove of Diana Nemorensis (" Diana of Nemi ").

Evidence suggests that the site of the sacred Druid grove and temple was on the site of All Saints Parish Church on a raised area in the centre of the town.

This site has a particularly mysterious atmosphere which may be felt at once by the pilgrims as they enter the grove and hears the gentle lapping of the water in the background.

Outside the walls of Athens, the site of the Academy was a sacred grove of olive trees, still recalled in the phrase " the groves of Academe.

In Antiquity the area had no town, but the grove was the site of one of the most famous of Roman cults and temples: that of Diana Nemorensis, a study of which served as the seed for Sir James Frazer's seminal work on the anthropology of religion, The Golden Bough.

The site of a historic grove called Penn's Grove, it was formerly a freight station on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad and a center of egg and chicken farming.

Beyond the walls, a site framed by a grove of casuarinas contains red glass and metal forms that refer to the force of the firestorm and the lightning strikes that sparked the main fires.

The site of Filitosa is approached down a track through an ancient olive grove.

Akkerbos, near the base of Donkey Pass, is a grove of oak trees that provided a picnic site during a Royal Tour by the British monarchy, including Elizabeth II in 1947.

Originally the site consisted of: a temple, traces of which survive in the foundations of the present temple ; a circular monument, which was probably destined for processions or dances around a grove of sacred trees ; and a formalized Archaic Altar and Precinct.

, and is much beloved of pagans, with the site containing a 28-tree ancient yew grove, and not because the name sounds like " witch ".