Daughter of the Elm." This story deals with events that occurred 

 just prior to the Civil War, and relates the doings of a band of 

 robbers that terrorized the surrounding country, using the Great Elm 

 as their rendezvous. 



THE NEENAH COUNCIL TREE 



A noted Council Tree or Treaty Elm of immense size, stood until 

 1890, on the point of land that juts out into Lake Winnebago from 

 the inlet of Fox River, at Neenah, Wis. Large enough to be seen 

 at a long distance, it served as a guide-post to pilots on the lake. 

 Beneath its branches, the conversation well known in the history of 

 the State, is believed to have occurred, between Four Legs, a Winne- 

 bago Chief, and General Henry Leavenworth. 



"When General Leavenworth, some years previous to 1827, was 

 ascending the Fox River with troops, on his way to the Mississippi, 

 on arriving at this pass Four Legs came out, dressed in all his gew- 

 gaws and feathers, and painted after the most approved fashion, and 

 announced to the General that he could not go through; "the Lake," 

 said he, "is locked." 



"Tell him," said the General, rising in his batteau, with a rifle in 

 his hand, "that THIS IS THE KEY, and I shall unlock it and 

 go on." 



The chief had a good deal of the better part of valor in his com- 

 position, and so he replied, "Very well, tell him he can go." 



The site where the old elm stood for so long, like a watchful 

 sentinel guarding its domain, is now part of Riverside Park, at 

 Neenah. A slab of its wood, forming the top of a large table in the 

 historic log cabin of Governor Doty, in the vicinity, is a treasured 

 souvenir of olden times. 



THE SENECA COUNCIL TREE 



The Seneca Indians possessed a noted Council Tree, a great elm, 

 near their village of Kanandesaga, N. Y., the last capital of their 

 nation. 



Besides sheltering their conclaves, the old elm marked other- 

 wise historic ground, for Kanandesaga figured in the French and 

 Indian War and the Revolution, and during the former war the 

 English established a fort here, thus securing the friendship and 

 assistance of the warriors. This relationship continued through the 

 Revolution, even though the Seneca Chief, "Big Tree," vowed friend- 

 ship for Washington and went to visit him. 



Later, Kanandesaga was rechristened Geneva, and became the 

 present city of that name in New York State. 



THE ELM OF ITALY HOLLOW 



As a result of the State College of Agriculture's inquiry con- 

 ducted during 1920, for the purpose of determining which was the 



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