This is the stump remains of "The Senator"

And this is "Lady Liberty" another ancient Taxodium distichum growing near "The Senator". It is estimated to be over 2000 years old.

Some older photos of "The Senator" from several years ago

I haven't been to the park in several years, when I was there last the park had just undergone a fairly thorough 'restoration'. I saw the newly planted cypress and thought it may have been a clone of The Senator. At that time there was no signage and no cage around the new tree, I was able to walk right up to it. I prefer the park the way it was before the work, much more natural. There is enough manicured stuff in central FL, in my opinion. Thanks for the update, I don't know when I'll get back.

Big tree

Diameter 230 cm, height 41 m, crown spread 24 m, located in Newton, GA (American forests 1996).

The specimen with greatest known stem volume was the "Senator" (also
called the "Sovereign Cypress"), located in Big Tree Park, Longwood,
Florida. This tree had a dbh 344 cm, a height of 35.0 m, and an
approximate stem volume of 119.4 m 3 (Van Pelt 1998), but it
was set on fire by a local resident and burned on January 15-16, 2012
(Huffington Post 2012). This is another in a long list of cases where an
extraordinarily large, tall, old, or otherwise significant tree has
been destroyed because of its celebrity.

Oldest

I have found no reliable data. The "Senator" mentioned above was
popularly described as 3,500 years old but there was no data to support
this speculative age, which has been variously described as the
determination of "experts" in the 1930s or determined by "increment
borer" which is not logical given that the tree was hollow. Since it
experienced nearly ideal growing conditions, it is quite possible that
it was much younger.

http://www.conifers.org/cu/Taxodium_distichum_imbricatum.php

love this stuff! Thanks for taking the time to post.