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Osage County is served by a weekly newspaper, The Osage County Herald-Chronicle. The newspaper has a circulation of approximately 4,500, making it the 3rd largest paid weekly publication in the state of Kansas. The Herald-Chronicle was created by the merger of The Osage County Herald and The Osage County Chronicle in February 2007.
Maurice Mehl (1887–1966), paleontologist, was born in Burlingame, Kansas; Victor Murdock (1871–1945), U.S. Representative from Kansas, Progressive Party presidential nominee, 1916. Carla Provost (b. 1970), chief of the Border Patrol; Kenny Starr (b. 1952), Country and Western singer
The community was founded by Emanuel "Governor" Mortimer (son of revolutionary war patriot Famous Mortimer), a lawyer originally from Kentucky who came to Kansas with his family on a wagon train from Illinois in 1868 when the Osage Ceded Lands were opened to settlement following the American Civil War. [1]
Osage City was surveyed and platted in late 1869, after the route of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had been fixed, but before it had been built to the city. Osage City was incorporated as a city in April 1872. [6] Like Osage County, the city was named for the Osage Nation. [7] Osage City was a very busy coal mining town in the 19th ...
Overbrook is a city in Osage County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,005. [3] History. The Santa Fe Trail passed ...
Oswego is located on the site of an Osage village called No tse Wa spe, which means "Heart Stays" or more loosely translated, "Quiet Heart." [4] Jesuit Missionaries from Osage Mission (now St. Paul, Kansas) who worked among the Osages called the village "Little Town," probably because the band of Osages who lived in the village were of the "Little Osage" division of the Osage People.
People from Osage City, Kansas (8 P) Pages in category "People from Osage County, Kansas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Michigan Valley is an unincorporated community in Osage County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is located a couple miles east of Pomona Lake. History.