Editing Sibley, Missouri (section)

==History==
Sibley was [[plat]]ted in 1836<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 | last=Eaton | first=David Wolfe | year=1916 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n75 178]}}</ref> as one of the oldest communities in Jackson County.<ref name="JCMIOaR"/> The village was named for [[George C. Sibley]], the first [[Indian agent]] and postmaster of [[Fort Osage]] from 1818 to 1825.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/jackson-county| title=Jackson County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date=October 16, 2016}}</ref>

It was settled on a bluff overlooking the [[Missouri River]] in the northeast corner of the county. One of its first homes was built by George C. Sibley. The second home was erected in 1822 by Abraham McCellan.<ref name="JCMIOaR">{{cite book | title=Jackson County Missouri, Its Opportunities and Resources | publisher=Rural Jackson County Chamber of Commerce | year=1926 | pages=285–286}}</ref> A post office called Sibley has been in operation since 1842.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Jackson | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=October 16, 2016}}</ref>

During the Civil War, most of the village was burned by federal soldiers who decided it was a stronghold of opposing forces because [[bushwhackers]] fired upon them as they moved along the river. At least 50 total houses were in the village, of which at least 36 were burned.<ref name="JCMIOaR"/>