A marker placed by the road points to the tree 300 yards away.
It reads: “This bur oak marks the halfway point between Lake
Michigan and the Mississippi River, paced off by Indian
runners and confirmed by a U.S. survey in 1832.”
There some differences of opinion as some say the
tree is 2.5 miles off and some 6.5 miles, but who
is to say how the Indians paced the trail.