Hooker Oak
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Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell, whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botani
Photo of loggers alongside the main trunk of the Hooker Oak in the early 1980s
Annie Bidwell
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Annie Kennedy Bidwell was a 19th-century pioneer and founder of society in the Sacramento Valley area of California. She is known for her contributions to social causes, such as women's suffrage, the
Hooker Oak
…Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree (Quercus lobata) in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell, whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker…
Annie Bidwell school girl
Annie Bidwell, 1910