Editing Osgood, Indiana (section)

==History==
Osgood was [[plat]]ted in 1854 when the railroad was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wonning|first=Paul R.|title=A Visit to Ripley County Indiana: Travel Guide for Ripley County, Indiana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZeLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT33|publisher=Mossy Feet Books|isbn=978-1-301-25438-5|page=33}}</ref> The town was named for A. L. Osgood, a railroad official.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Visit to Osgood and Napoleon, Indiana: A Guide to Osgood and Napoleon in Southern Indiana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PGhxBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT6|date=July 29, 2011|publisher=Mossy Feet Books|isbn=978-1-4657-2522-6|page=6}}</ref> A post office called Osgood has been in operation since 1855.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Ripley&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Ripley County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=November 30, 2015}}</ref> In the 1890s, Osgood was a [[sundown town]], where African Americans were not allowed to reside. By then, Osgood was still much more closely connected to [[Cincinnati]] than [[Indianapolis]] in terms of trade.<ref>{{cite news|title=No Colored Men There|work=[[Indianapolis Journal]]|location=Indianapolis|date=October 22, 1894|page=8|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1894-10-22/ed-1/seq-8/|via=Chronicling America|quote='Damage suits brought by "colored" citizens because of real or fancied deprivation from civil rights through "man's inhumanity to man" are frequently reported throughout the North, and occasionally in this city,' says Dr. W. B. Clarke. 'But I was recently much surprised to learn that there are portions of this very State where a colored person is not even allowed to become a citizen, or even reside. During a month's sojourn in Ripley county I visited several towns without seeing a single Afro-American, and at Osgood, the largest town in the county, was informed that negroes were not allowed to live there, and that there was not a colored family within quite a number of miles of the town. This is only fifty-two miles west of Cincinnati, on the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad|Baltimore & Ohio]] Southwestern (the old [[Ohio and Mississippi Railway|Ohio & Mississippi]]), in Congressman Objector [[William S. Holman|Holman]]'s Democratic balliwick. Without moralizing on the matter I will only say that this is not because there is no work suitable for them, for domestic help is very scarce and in great demand, and there are extensive quarries, dairies and farms and much timber to cut. Another matter there struck me as rather peculiar, and that is, there is no affiliation in any way with the capital city of the State except the little legal business absolutely necessary. The colloquial phrase, "the city," always refers to Cincinnati. Yet all this is because of the roundabout means of access, which would quickly be changed if the [[Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway|Big Four]] would build an extension from [[Greensburg, Indiana|Greensburg]], only eighteen miles, paralleling the Michigan road, via [[Napoleon, Indiana|Napoleon]].'}}</ref>

In 1999, the community received a $23 million bequest from the Gilmore and Golda Reynolds Foundation, which was established by two lifelong Osgood residents to assist the town government as well as local non-profit organizations.<ref>{{cite book|author=Emmis Communications|title=Indianapolis Monthly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOoCAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA249|date=November 2000|publisher=Emmis Communications|page=249|issn=0899-0328}}</ref>