Editing Glasco, Kansas (section)

==History==
Glasco was originally called '''Del Ray''', and under the latter name was laid out and [[plat]]ted in 1870.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3YUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA523 | title=Biographical History of Cloud County, Kansas: Biographies of Representative Citizens. Illustrated with Portraits of Prominent People, Cuts of Homes, Stock, Etc. | publisher=Wilson, Humphrey & Company | author=Hollibaugh, E. F. | year=1903 | pages=523}}</ref>  The name '''Glasco''' was adopted officially by the Kansas legislature in 1878 and incorporated as a city of the third class April 14, 1886, and named after [[Glasgow]], Scotland.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n137 138]}}</ref>  Glasco was a shipping point on the Union Pacific railroad.<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/n746 750]}}</ref>

===Historic sites===
This small town has two items of interest on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: [[Pott's Ford Bridge]] is located just 1/2 mile south of the city limits, and the [[Glasco Downtown Historic District|entire downtown business district]] has also earned a listing on the register.