Editing Englewood, Kansas (section)

==History==
Englewood was founded in 1884<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.skyways.org/counties/CA/ | title=Clark County | publisher=Kansas State Library | work=Blue Skyways | accessdate=7 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o8X5krq3fP8C/page/n592 590]}}</ref> as a stop for [[droving|cattle drives]] along the [[Texas Trail]] on the way to [[Dodge City, Kansas|Dodge City]].<ref name="speck2024">{{cite book |last1=Speck |first1=Gary B |title=Ghost Towns: America's Abandoned Sites and Settlements |date=2024 |publisher=Publishers International |location=Morton Grove, IL |isbn=978-1-63938-623-9 |pages=112–113 |chapter=The Northwestern States}}</ref> It was named after the Chicago neighbourhood of [[Englewood, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4616 | title=Profile for Englewood, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=7 June 2014 | archive-date=September 28, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928044028/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4616 | url-status=dead}}</ref> The first post office in Englewood was established in 1885.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:CA |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=6 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009131532/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county%3ACA |archivedate=October 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw10|title=Donovan L. Hofsommer, "The Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway"|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref> The [[Panic of 1893]] caused failure of farms and the agricultural economy of the region, which did not recover until a local rancher donated land to the town in 1906. Two years later, much of the new business district was destroyed by fire.<ref name="speck2024"/>