It has long been a traffic crossroads, and in former times traders and porters on their way to and from the Puli basin would rest here, and change the plaited-rice-straw sandals in which they had walked so far.
古名「草鞋墩」的草屯，自古就是交通樞紐，清末以來往返埔里盆地的商旅、挑夫在此休憩，更換踏破千里路的草鞋。