Neosho County, Kansas

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The land of which Neosho County is now a part was an Indian hunting ground for the Osages and other members of the Sioux Tribe when first visited by the white man. In 1838, a treaty was made whereby the New York Indians traded their lands in Wisconsin for 1,824,000 in Kansas, lying just north of the Cherokee Neutral Strip and the Osage lands, being 320 acres for each member of the Senecas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Tuscaroras, Oneidas, St. Regis, Stolkbridges, Munsees and Brothertowns.

Neosho County was established under the name of Dorn County by the so-called Bogus legislature held at Shawnee in 1855, as the Territorial Capital before Kansas became a state. Dorn was split into Neosho and Labette Counties in 1861. The name Neosho had been used by the Kansas Indians many years before white settlement. George Sibley of the Santa Fe Trail survey team mentioned the Nee Ozho River in his journal entry of August 5, 1825. Ne means "water" and osho means "stream in" or "stream with water in it."

The Osages described the color of Neosho as "Water-Like-the-Skin-of-a-Summer-Cow- Wapiti." Pioneers sometimes referred to the river as Noshow because it occasionally went dry in the summer.

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Upcoming Area Events Artist Alley Festival   - Sep 25 - Chanute, Kansas Quilt Month in Chanute   - Oct 1 - Chanute, Kansas Veterans Day Parade   - Nov 11 - Chanute, Kansas Downtown Christmas Open House   - Nov 19 - Chanute, Kansas Christmas Festival   - Dec 1 - Chanute, Kansas Soup & Chili Supper   - Dec 2 - Chanute, Kansas Annual Chanute Mexican Fiesta   - Sep 10 - Chanute, Kansas Parade of Lights   - Dec 2 - Chanute, Kansas Christmas Parade   - Dec 11 - Erie, Kansas Fall Bazaar   - Oct 31 - St. Paul, Kansas Area Attractions Thayer Museum - Thayer, Kansas Neosho Wildlife Area - St. Paul, Kansas Prairie Ridge Golf Club - Erie, Kansas Mem-Erie Historical Museum - Erie, Kansas St. Francis Cemetery - St. Paul, Kansas Osage Hills Country Club - St. Paul, Kansas Memorial Auditorium - Chanute, Kansas Chanute City Lake - Chanute, Kansas Hope Cemetery - St. Paul, Kansas Osage Mission-Neosho County Museum - St. Paul, Kansas

 

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