Editing Savonburg, Kansas (section)

==History==
Savonburg was founded in 1879.<ref name="AC1">{{cite web | url=http://www.allencounty.org/savonburg1.html | title=Savonburg | publisher=Allen County | access-date= May 18, 2014}}</ref>  The origin of the name Savonburg is obscure.<ref>{{cite book|last=Capace|first=Nancy|title=Encyclopedia of Kansas | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=TSFZV1bcgOQC&pg=PA264|date= June 1, 2000|publisher=North American Book Dist LLC|isbn=978-0-403-09312-0|page=264}}</ref> It was incorporated as a city in 1902.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n636 652]}}</ref>  Its high school closed in 1946, then its grade school closed in the 1960s.<ref name="AC1"/>  Many of the settlers of Savonburg were Swedish.  In the early days, the city had a Swedish concert band.<ref>[http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/100615 Kansa Memory photo of Swedish concert band at Savonburg]</ref>  For much of the 20th century, Savonburg was served by the [[Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad]] which maintained a [[Train station|passenger depot]] in the city.