h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Legend in American revolutionary history has it that after receiving his mortal wound Gen. Hugh Mercer was carried to lie under a large oak tree there on the battlefield which was in a farm field, where he died. That tree however lived, and lived that is until the year 1999, done in by age, lightning strikes pollution and whatever, in the end held together by bolts and cables where it had been split by time and the seasons. In the year 2000, a young oak, sprung from an acorn of the "Mercer Oak" was planted on the spot to continue the tradition, and hopefully in a few years provide the only shade again in the middle of the field at the center of Princeton Battlefield Park. Brits are welcome there now and are no longer fired at.