Imagine living in present day Langdon, KS in 1846. Luther Hobbs would have been one of the first settlers in the area. According to family member Judy Parsons, Luther went out alone and gathered cottonwood seedlings and planted them. As time went on a home was built near the tree. For the past 176 years the cottonwood stood tall in the small town of Langdon with a large Trumpet Vine climbing up the trunk of the tree. The cottonwood finally dropped a large limb. The limb crushed a garage. It destroyed 8 rafters, a roof and totaled out two vehicles. As most of you may already know a cottonwood can continue to live and produce leaves while the inside of the trunk and large branches are hollow. For this reason, the current owner of the tree decided to have the tree cut down.
