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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.
Labette County is a county located in Southeast Kansas.Its county seat is Oswego, [2] and its most populous city is Parsons.As of the 2020 census, the county population was 20,184. [1]
Mathews was a prominent figure in Southeast Kansas in the lead up to and during the American Civil War. [7] He was a pro-confederate partisan and raider from 1856 on during Bleeding Kansas . [ 8 ] In 1861, he was commissioned a Confederate Army captain and led a meeting on June 4, 1861, to organize Cherokee , Osage, and white people living in ...
A list of people who were born in, or strongly associated with, Oswego, Kansas Pages in category "People from Oswego, Kansas" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Oswego, Kansas This page was last edited on 20 June 2016, at 20:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Labette County, Kansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
In 2006 the Southeast Kansas Library System announced that Oswego Public Library had won a US$15,000 grant for an interior redesign. Along with a US$7,000 pledge from the Oswego Public Library library board, this idea became known as "Project OSWEGO" [4] and yielded great results, including a new young adult section, an entirely redesigned children's area, complete with a life-size tree sculpture.
History of Labette County, Kansas, and Representative Citizens Chicago: Biographical Publishing, 1901 [47] De la Garza, Phyllis. Death for Dinner: The Benders of (Old) Kansas. Talei Publishers, 2004. ISBN 978-0-9631772-9-2; Debczak, Michele. "The Kansas Land That Once Belonged to the Bloody Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family, Is Up ...