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Harry Krause Harry Krause is offline
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Default More political cut and paste from Harry..

wrote:
On Jan 21, 10:55 am, harry krause wrote:
On Jan 20, 3:34 pm, wrote:
My brother (not by blood) is building a house on some land he got that
is a couple of miles off the exit ramp at route 10 and 75, think he is
in Live Oaks, or real near it...- Hide quoted text -

It's a very small town and a pretty much "isolated" area, but it is near
the Suwanee River. Used to drive by the road signs to Live Oak on my way
to and from Tallahassee. I think there was a truck stop on I-10 near
Live Oak. Maybe it was a burger joint.

I assume the name of the town comes from the "evergreen" oaks found
throughout Northern Florida (and much more of the southeast). It's a
nice wood, strong, but the damned trees are fragile and lose limbs easily.


Or maybe, just maybe, it's named after the live oaks that grow the

http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Live_oak/liveoak.htm



What do you think the evergreen oaks are, village idiot?