The Fitzgerald Station and Farmstead is a collection of historic structures associated with the Butterfield Overland Mail Trail, the mid-nineteenth century mail and passenger route that connected Missouri to California via the South before the Civil War cut it short. The farmstead includes several original and relocated period buildings on land that once served as a Butterfield way-station.
The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is not a major tourist destination but is worth a stop for anyone interested in frontier history — the Butterfield trail is the direct ancestor of the modern interstate highway system through the region, and the farmstead gives a concrete sense of what cross-country travel looked like before the railroads.