Editing Hiawatha, Kansas (section)

==History==
{{See also|History of Kansas}}

===Etymology===
B.L. Rider reportedly was responsible for naming Hiawatha, taking the young Indian's name from [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]'s poem, ''[[The Song of Hiawatha]]''.<ref>Kansas Place-Names, John Rydjord, University of Oklahoma Press, 1972, p. 436 {{ISBN|978-0-8061-0994-7}}.</ref> In the poem is legendary [[Onondaga (tribe)|Onondaga]] and [[mohawk nation|Mohawk]] Indian leader [[Hiawatha]]. Adjacent to the former Ioway-Sac reservation and the present-day Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, Hiawatha is called ''Hári Wáta'' in [[Chiwere language|Ioway]], meaning "I am looking far away".<ref name=iom1992>Goodtracks, Jimm (1992) Baxoje-Jiwere-Nyut'aji - Ma'unke: Iowa-Otoe-Missouria Language to English. Boulder, CO: Center for the Study of the Languages of the Plains and Southwest.</ref>

===19th century===
Hiawatha was founded in 1857, making it one of the oldest towns in the state.<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/n836 840]}}</ref> John M. Coe, John P. Wheller, and Thomas J. Drummond were instrumental in organizing the city, and the site was staked out February 17, 1857. Hiawatha became the Brown County Seat in 1858, and the first school opened in 1870.

The main street was designated Oregon Street after the [[Oregon Trail]]. Parallel streets north of it were named after Indian tribes north of the Trail, and streets south carried tribal names of those south of the Trail.

===20th century===
The city is home to the longest running continuous [[Halloween]] parade in the nation, starting in 1914.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofhiawatha.org/visitors/halloween-frolic |work=City of Hiawatha |title=Halloween Frolic |access-date=2013-09-04 |archive-date=October 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007050116/http://www.cityofhiawatha.org/visitors/halloween-frolic |url-status=dead }}</ref>

According to The ''New York Times'' in 2012, "the cartoonist [[Bob Montana]] inked the original likenesses of [[Archie Andrews (comics)|Archie]] and his pals and plopped them in an idyllic Midwestern community named Riverdale because [[John L. Goldwater|Mr. [John] Goldwater]], a New Yorker, had fond memories of time spent in Hiawatha"<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/nyregion/the-battle-for-a-comic-empire-that-archie-built.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all |work=The New York Times |first=Robin |last=Finn |title=The Battle for a Comic Empire That Archie Built |date=April 13, 2012}}</ref>  Goldwater had hitchhiked to the community at the age of 17 and started working at the Hiawatha Daily World.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/hiawatha-revealed-as-a-city-of-archie-s/article_f98ccc77-86bc-515e-9945-a1f011b951b4.html | title=Hiawatha revealed as a city of Archie's }}</ref>