12. Custer Elm
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Legend has it while patrolling along the Santa Fe Trail with companies of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, George Armstrong Custer camped under the huge elm that flourished at this site.  The elm measured over 100 feet tall and 16 feet around.  Custer purchased 120 acres of land south of here in 1869.

Visit 13.
Neosho River Crossing