Editing Oregon, Missouri (section)

==History==
Oregon was originally called Finley,<ref name="GH">{{cite book | title=Gone home: Directory of the deceased and items of history of Holt County, Missouri, 1837-1981 | publisher=Holt County Missouri Historical Society | author=Derr, Eileen | year=1981}}</ref> and under that name was [[plat]]ted in June 1841;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_holt.html |title=Holt County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |access-date=October 8, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070426/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_holt.html |archive-date=June 24, 2016 }}</ref> it was replatted on October 21, 1841 as Oregon.<ref name="GH"/> The present name refers to the [[Oregon Country]], which was at the time considered a prime destination of [[Oregon Trail|pioneer emigrants passing through the area]].<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/n70 173]}}</ref> A post office called Oregon has been in operation since 1843.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Holt|title=Post Offices|publisher=Jim Forte Postal History|access-date=October 8, 2016}}</ref> It was a significant trading post in the [[Platte Purchase]] region of Missouri for the first couple of decades of existence.<ref name="Holt1877">{{cite web|url=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/plat/id/1543|title=An illustrated historical atlas map of Holt County, Mo, 1877|publisher=Brink, McDonough & Company|access-date=May 3, 2025}}</ref> In 1873, the [[Northwest Missouri Normal School]] was built in Oregon, at a cost of $22,000<ref name="Holt1877"/> ($586,000 in 2025 dollars).