School Gets Educated : Hillsdale’s 170-year-old White Oak tree was supposed to be cut down for a school expansion

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Hillsdale NJ, in an era where new construction often means “out with the old,” a piece of living history in Bergen County has just won a major victory. A venerable White Oak tree, which has stood guard in Hillsdale since nearly a decade before the Civil War, has officially been spared from the buzzsaws.