Shortly after the close of World War I, George Nye planted the Three Sycamore Trees on the Ohio River bank as a memorial for the first three soldiers from Meigs County killed in World War I: Pvt McKinley (Kinney) Thompson of Minersville, 2/2/1897 - 9/15/1918; Pvt. Lewis E. Daniels of Chester, 8/31/1888 - 8/23/1918; and Pvt. Charles V. Baumgardner of Pomeroy, 4/11/1889 - 10/20/1918. The name markers and one tree have been gone for several years.