This Indian Trail Tree

At the northern boundary of Cook County stands the most noticeable bent Indian trail tree on a highway, one of eleven similarly bent trees in the county that pointed the direction of Indian trails. Its branch was bent and fastened to the ground by Indians when the tree was a sapling, over 80 years earlier. The tree stands near the Green Bay Trail, later used as the wagon road of early white settlers of the 1830 period, followed by the Chicago & Northwestern R.R. in 1855 and later by the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric R.R. in 1899.

Highland Park, Illinois · United States