Can someone please help me figure out what a particular tree is?

It had acorns, a bit smaller than most oak acorns I've seen.

The leaves were not multi-lobed like oak leaves; in fact they looked a
lot like bay leaves. (They didn't smell like bay leaves, though.)

The bark was unremarkable, vaguely like a thousand varieties of
deciduous trees (elm, oak, maple, etc).

It was located in Tamarack, West Virginia.

Thank you!

Ted Shoemaker