Editing Neosho Falls, Kansas (section)

==History==
Neosho Falls was founded in 1857, making it the oldest town and first county seat in Woodson County.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n340 350]}}</ref> It was named from the [[Neosho River]], on which it is situated.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n423 316]}}</ref> The first post office in Neosho Falls was established in May 1857.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:WO |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |access-date=27 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009124645/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:WO |archive-date=October 9, 2013 }}</ref>

Neosho Falls was originally [[plat]]ted and extensively improved by a company led by [[Benjamin F. Goss]] and his brother N. S. Goss, who would later organize a [[Company (military unit)|company]] of [[cavalry]] in the area to fight for the Union in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].

The town was largely destroyed and abandoned when the Neosho River overflowed during the [[Great Flood of 1951]].