Editing Osage Beach, Missouri (section)

==History==
Osage Beach was founded in 1886 as '''Zebra''' before being renamed as Osage Beach in 1935. Osage Beach was incorporated in 1959.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.osagebeach-mo.gov/27/Government | title=Osage Beach ~ Then & Now | publisher=City of Osage Beach | access-date=4 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-05 |title=Osage Beach, Missouri |url=https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/osage-beach-missouri.html |access-date=2023-12-10 |website=WorldAtlas |language=en-US}}</ref>

When the [[Lake of the Ozarks]] was created, it caused the flooding of much of Zebra. Most of the town's merchants chose not to establish new locations.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weaver |first=H. Dwight |title=Images of America: Osage Beach |date=2012-10-08 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing Library Editions |isbn=978-1531663889}}</ref>