This big Beech tree is about 100 yards across the road from my house. It is big enough that me and my two adult sons can't reach around it. Sadly, it got struck by lighting about 5 years ago and the top sheared out of it, about 25' off the ground. The trunk won't last much longer. The "Est. 1871" used to be much more pronounced, but whatever was carved under that was never legible. I've been keeping and eye on it so when the bark does fall off I can see if the wood underneath is scarred, too. No one named "Waldron" has ever owned our farm, going back through the records. we always assumed it was a trapper, vagrant hunter, or mountain man type person.
