Where in Kansas is...?

Are you buckled up? Back to
Kansas we go. Today we are
looking for C as in Council
Grove.

The city was named after an
agreement with the European
Americans and the Osage Nation.
The agreement allowed settler
wagons to come through on their
way west. They gathered at a
grove of trees to meet before
they headed west.

It was one of the last stops on
the Sante Fe Trail.

Daniel Boone's grandson,
Seth Hays was one of the
first settlers to the area.

In 1857, Hays opened a
restaurant, the Hays
House and it is still in
operation today! It is said
to be the oldest operating
restaurant west of the
Mississippi.
(You can Google it and find
out more about this historic
restaurant.)

Council Grove has 13 sites
listed on the National Register
of Historic Places.

There are two facts I found quite
interesting about Council Grove.

~Back in the settler's days, as they
traveled there was a designated tree
called Post Office Oak and they
could leave their mail in the tree and
it would picked up by others going the
right direction. How they knew this
blows my mind.

~During the Civil War, General
Custer of the US Army slept here
with his troops under a large tree
known today as the Custer Elm.


Swing on by tomorrow for D.

~Keep on Dreaming~