Editing Sarcoxie, Missouri (section)

==History==
Sarcoxie was [[plat]]ted in the early 1830s, and it was originally called Centerville from its location upon [[Center Creek (Missouri)|Center Creek]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_jasper.html| title=Jasper County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)| publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| accessdate=18 October 2016| url-status=bot: unknown| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071656/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_jasper.html| archivedate=24 June 2016}}</ref> In 1839, the settlement was renamed in honor of Sarcoxie, a chief of the Delaware Indians who had settled near a spring in the present town limits.<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/n76 179]}}</ref>

Sarcoxie was once the strawberry capital of the world and still is the peony capital of the world,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wood|first1=Larry|title=Sarcoxie, Strawberry Capital of the World|url=http://ozarks-history.blogspot.com/2013/01/sarcoxie-strawberry-capital-of-world.html|website=Ozark History|date=4 January 2013 |accessdate=26 February 2016}}</ref> and home to [[Gilbert H. Wild]], one of America's largest growers of daylilies, iris, and peonies. Sarcoxie once had its own currency that had a picture of a strawberry on one side.<ref>Nova Numismatics, Aaron Packard, June 2011</ref>

During the start of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] in 1861, [[Franz Sigel]]'s independent command passed through Sarcoxie on June 28 before attempting to attack the separated commands of [[Sterling Price]] and Missouri Governor and General [[Claiborne Fox Jackson]]. Price was rumored to be at Pool's Prairie, moving to the Confederate forces in Northwest Arkansas.<ref>The Battle of Carthage, David C. Hinge and Karen Farnham, Savas Publishing 1997.</ref>

The [[Cave Spring School and Cave Spring Cemetery]] and [[Sarcoxie Public Square Historic District]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Jasper County, Missouri]].<ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20120727.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2012-07-27|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 7/16/12 through 7/20/12|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nps1">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20140725.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2014-07-25|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 7/14/14 through 7/18/14|publisher=[[National Park Service]]}}</ref>