Editing Higginsville, Missouri (section)

==History==
Higginsville was founded in 1869 and named after Harvey Higgins, the original owner of the town site.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n80 183]}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Higginsville since 1870.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Lafayette | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref>

Higginsville was formerly the site of the [[Confederate Memorial State Historic Site|Missouri Confederate Soldiers' Home]]. After the last of the Confederate veterans died, the lands were converted into a Confederate Memorial Cemetery. This 135-acre site is preserved in memory of the more than 40,000 Missourians who fought under the [[Flags of the Confederate States of America|Confederate flag]]. Captain [[William Quantrill|William Clarke Quantrill]] is one of those interred here.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mostateparks.com/page/54952/general-information|title=General Information|date=6 February 2011}}</ref>

The [[Confederate Memorial State Historic Site|Confederate Chapel, Cemetery and Cottage]], [[Houx-Hoefer-Rehkop House]], and [[Chicago and Alton Railroad Depot at Higginsville]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].
In [[World War 1]] [[Bert Hall]], a soldier from Higginsville, joined the French Army and became a pilot.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>