Scythe Tree News Today

WATERLOO — Although a big piece of this town’s historic scythe tree has fallen, the part with three scythes embedded remains — and local officials want to make sure it

Fingerlakes1.com Menu This content is brought to you by the FingerLakes1.com Team. Support our mission by visiting www.patreon.com/fl1 or learn how you send us your local content here. Learn about the fascinating history of one of the oldest trees in the Finger Lakes, the Scythe Tree in Waterloo, NY. In 1861, according to the plaque at the foot of the tree, “James Wyman Johnson came from the fields one morning, hung his scythe in the crotch of a small cottonwood tree, and said, ‘Leave the s...