Editing Halstead, Kansas (section)

==History==
[[File:Stouffer's Railroad Map of Kansas 1915-1918 Harvey County.png|thumb|left|1915 Railroad Map of [[Harvey County, Kansas|Harvey County]]]]
[[File:ABANDONED SANTA FE DEPOT SIGN WHICH ONCE BECKONED TRAVELERS AT HALSTEAD, KANSAS, NOW RUSTS IN WEEDS BEHIND THE... - NARA - 556013.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Abandoned [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Santa Fe]] depot sign in Halstead, 1974. Photo by [[Charles O'Rear]].]]
For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]].  In 1803, most of [[History of Kansas|modern Kansas]] was secured by the United States as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]].  In 1854, the [[Kansas Territory]] was organized, then in 1861 [[Kansas]] became the 34th [[U.S. state]].  In 1872, [[Harvey County, Kansas|Harvey County]] was founded.

Halstead was laid out in 1873.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of the State of Kansas: Containing a Full Account of Its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofstateof00andr|year=1883|publisher=A. T. Andreas|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofstateof00andr/page/784 784]}}</ref> The first post office at Halstead was established in April 1873.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:HV |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |access-date=11 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009125036/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:HV |archive-date=October 9, 2013 }}</ref> Halstead was incorporated as a city in 1877.<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/n798 802]}}</ref>

[[Arthur E. Hertzler|Arthur Hertzler]], the "Horse-and-Buggy Doctor," devoted much of his life and energies to the medical environment of Halstead, founding the [[Halstead Hospital (Halstead, Kansas)|Hertzler Hospital]], a clinic and hospital for the area residents, later known as the Halstead Hospital.<ref>[http://www.kshs.org/portraits/hertzler_arthur.htm Arthur Emanual Hertzler, A Kansas Portrait]</ref>