The Sycamore Tree
Inscription
This tree was planted from a cutting of the old sycamore tree that stood several hundred feet west of here on the historic Two Notch Road. Local tradition holds that a succession of sycamore trees had been at that site and used as a landmark or point of reference since the road was an Indian path and also that George Washington rested there in 1791.
Erected by Lexington County * † Reported missing in 2004. No longer extant. Replaced by marker 32-38. Historical Society, 1973
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