Twelve Oaks Traditional Geocache
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The Twelve Oaks property is Ocean Springs, MS. Please use trails to hunt cache. Please practice CITO. Please respect the privacy of camper on property.
PLEASE DO NOT DRIVE PAST HOUSE, STAY ON GRAVEL DRIVEWAY.
Faith, Hope, and Charity are words that touch the hearts and souls of everyone. The Twelve Oaks property is a 30 acre tract of land in Ocean Springs, MS with 3 mounds of earth and numerous live oaks spread about the property. The 3 mounds are called Faith, Hope, and Charity and many of the oaks are believed to be over 400 yrs old.
1880
Former slave Joanna Blount and husband Harry bought the twelve oaks locations from Leannah James for $5 an acre. Johanna must have been a woman of strong faith, she believed first of all in the freedom granted by a country where she had been a slave. She had faith enough to invest in the property of a nation that held her to be property.
1884
4 years after buying the property Johanna sold 4 acres for $40 to an African American Congregation so they could build a church. It was at this time that the 3 mounds of earth were named Faith, Hope, and Charity. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was built on the mound named Hope. The largest tree on the property stands on Faith. It is said that many long time OS residents recall the torchlit bayou baptismals that once took place upon these blessed southern grounds.
1888
The death of Johanna divided the property among her children.
1911
The church sold their 4 acres to Walter Armstrong for $60. Armstrong also purchased the adjacent property from the heirs for the back taxes in 1912
1914-1954
The property changed hands twice more first going to Frank G. Hanley then to SJ and Elizabeth Logan.
1992
Juliette Vos purchased the property from grandmother’s estate and continued the tradition of conservation of this area of natural beauty and serenity
2005
To further establish the traditions of preserving the natural beauty of the land the Twelve Oaks property is owned by the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain, a Mississippi 501(c)(3) not-for-profit conservation organization, and the Department of Marine Resources Coastal Preserves Program.
Info provided by:
If Trees Could Talk (CD)
The Mississippi Urban Forest Council: Stories & Legends of Ancient Live Oak Trees Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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