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Hooker Oak

  • Address: Hooker Oak Avenue
  • Vicinity: Manzanita Avenue, Bidwell Park
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Site

Hooker Oak was a very large oak tree that was thought to be about a thousand years old. After crashing to the ground in a wind storm, it was discovered to be two oaks trees, only about 200 years old that had grown together. In 1938, Hooker Oak became Gallows Oak in the Warner Brothers Studio's film The Adventures of Robin Hood staring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette and Alan Hale Sr. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1887/00/00 Annie Kennedy Bidwell Annie Bidwell names an oak tree after English botanist Sir Joseph Hooker
1938/00/00 Michael Curtiz films the huge banquet scene for "The Adventures of Robin Hood" around Hooker Oak (lost), called 'Gallows Oak' in the film. The Adventures of Robin Hood
1977/00/00 Hooker Oak falls during a windstorm
2013/02/28 Hooker Oak tree stump is burned by vandals

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History

In 1887 Annie E K Bidwell named this huge oak after English botanist Sir Joseph Hooker. When it fell during a windstorm in 1977, it was estimated to be over a thousand years old - it was nearly a hundred feet tall and 29 feet in circumference eight feet from the ground. The largest branch measured 111 feet from trunk to tip - circumference of outside branches was nearly five hundred feet. - CA State Parks

Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
The Adventures of Robin Hood Film Michael Curtiz Bidwell Park is filmed as Sherwood Forest, Hooker Oak was Gallows Oak

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