The BriefBurr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, the final resting place of Emmett and Mamie Till, Dinah Washington, and King Von, has ...

WAVERLY — A Waverly icon older than the city itself came down this weekend. Crews began cutting down the ailing bur oak tree outside City Hall on Friday afternoon. The tree, estimated to be about 217 ...

A giant bur oak estimated at more than 400 years old and regarded as the oldest tree in North Texas collapsed Oct. 25 during a heavy rain storm. The Quadricentennial Bur Oak, located in Bob Woodruff ...

The Alsip cemetery is the final resting place of Mamie and Emmett Till, rapper King Von, singer Dinah Washington and generations of other prominent figures.

Nebraska's "Old Wolf Oak" tree, a burr oak that is more than 380 years old, has died after a long drought. (Courtesy of Nebraska Game and Parks Commission) LINCOLN — One of Nebraska’s oldest trees has ...

Virginia Tech is honoring a pest management professor who is credited with saving Virginia’s fruit industry and in 1900 planted what is today the second largest tree on campus by dedicating that ...

WAVERLY — The city of Waverly is figuring out how to say goodbye to its oldest resident. Although it has never moved from the bank of the Cedar River, the bur oak tree outside Waverly’s Civic Center ...