Kokomo, where America's first car was manufactured (fun fact – before Detroit took over, Indiana had more car companies than any other place in the U.S.), takes its automotive heritage seriously.

The Elwood Haynes Museum located in the Haynes home which was built in 1915. Before there was Detroit, there was Indiana – which in the early 1900s was the largest manufacturer of automobiles in the country. Elwood Haynes was the inventor and builder of the first successful commercial automobile in the country, making his first trial run on July 4, 1894.

The 180 acre Highland Park with a walking path along Kokomo Creek. But most interestingly, housed in a glass sided building is the Sycamore Stump which once stood at the west end of Howard County where Kokomo is located. The stump, from a tree that was estimated to be 800 years old at the time it was cut down in 1916, is 57 feet in circumference and one of its lower branches was eight feet in circumference.