Rising out of the Flint Hills, Mount Mitchell is a 164-acre prairie hilltop and public park. Interpretive panels at the main entrance explain that American Indians, explorers, immigrants, and enslaved people seeking freedom on the Underground Railroad passed through this area. In season, wildflowers and grasses surround you as you hike the park's three and a half miles of walking trails. Captain William Mitchell, for whom the hill was named, came to this area with the Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony in 1856. On the top of the hill a bronze plaque on a red glacial rock commemorates Mitchell and the Beecher colony. A second memorial pays tribute to a Mitchell relative Captain George T. 'Dodge' Fielding. To the north you can see the privately owned Mitchell farmstead, which comprises original structures that once sheltered freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad.

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