Bur Oak

Historical marker location:

115 East Main Street, Council Grove, Kansas

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 56) and 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1995

Quercus macrocarpa. Sprout Date 1694.

The first successful airplane flight west of the Mississippi River took place in Kansas in 1910, when Clyde Cessna flew his plane for the first time in Wichita.