The famous oak tree from The Shawshank Redemption has fallen, the Mansfield/Richland County Convention and Visitors Bureau confirmed Friday.
Staff at the convention and visitors bureau were not immediately sure what caused the tree to fall but said they had received a call that the entire tree was down. A portion of the tree had fallen several years ago when the tree was split during a storm.
The tree, located on private property near Malabar Farm, was an iconic filming location in the movie, where Red, the character played by Morgan Freeman, walked along a hay field and removed stones from a rock wall, and where Andy, the character played by Tim Robbins, kept a gift for Red.
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