Editing Osage City, Kansas (section)

==History==
Osage City was surveyed and platted in late 1869, after the route of the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] had been fixed, but before it had been built to the city.  Osage City was incorporated as a city in April 1872.<ref name="History1">[http://www.osagecity.com/DocumentView.asp?DID=424 Early history of Osage City]</ref> Like Osage County, the city was named for the [[Osage Nation]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4912 | title=Profile for Osage City, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | access-date=22 June 2014}}</ref>

Osage City was a very busy coal mining town in the 19th century.  In the summer of 1870, the first coal mines were opened by the Osage Carbon, Coal & Mining Company.  At one time, there were twenty-eight mine shafts and 1,200 men employed.<ref name="History1"/>