Editing Seneca, Kansas (section)

==History==
{{See also|History of Kansas}}
Seneca was founded in 1857. It was named after [[Seneca County, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zdAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA249 | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=249}}</ref>  The first post office in Seneca was established in November 1858.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:NM |title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived) |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=18 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009123417/http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:NM |archivedate=October 9, 2013 }}</ref>  Seneca grew up along the wagon route from [[St. Joseph, Missouri]] to [[Oregon]] and [[California]].  British explorer [[Richard Francis Burton]] en route to California in 1860 passed through town and noted: "... Seneca, a city consisting of a few shanties ..."<ref>Richard Burton, (1862) ''The Look of the West 1860'', Lincoln: Univ. Nebraska Press, reprint, n.d., p.27.</ref>  Seneca was a station on the [[Pony Express]] of the early 1860s.  The station was located in the Smith Hotel, at the present-day location of Fourth and Main Streets.<ref>{{cite web | title = Kansas Stations | publisher = XP Pony Express Home Station | url = http://www.xphomestation.com/kssta.html#C | accessdate = 16 March 2016}}</ref>  Seneca was incorporated as a city in 1870.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qi9cXyTWt9EC&pg=PA668 | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=668}}</ref>

Seneca was home to [[minor league baseball]]. The [[Seneca (baseball)|Seneca]] team played the 1910 season as members of the [[Class D (baseball)|Class D]] level [[Eastern Kansas League]], finishing in 2nd place. The team played home games at City Park.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/roster/t-ss14507/y-1910|title=1910 Seneca minor league baseball Roster on StatsCrew.com|website=www.statscrew.com}}</ref>