Editing Sparta, Missouri (section)

==History==
A post office called Sparta has been in operation since 1876.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=MO | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=19 September 2016}}</ref> The city's name is a transfer from [[Sparta, Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_christian.html| title=Christian County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)| publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date=19 September 2016| url-status=bot: unknown| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071710/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_christian.html| archive-date=24 June 2016}}</ref>  Sparta got rail service when a subsidiary of the [[St. Louis–San Francisco Railway]] (Frisco) extended a line from [[Ozark, Missouri]] to [[Chadwick, Missouri]] in the Spring of 1883.<ref name=Frisco>{{cite web|url= http://www.condrenrails.com/Frisco/Frisco-Museum-All-Aboards/AA1988.8.v3.3.pdf |title= An Early Mobile Photographic Studio | publisher=All Aboard, The Frisco Railroad Museum, August, 1988 (accessed on CondrenRails.com) | access-date=October 14, 2020}}</ref>  But passenger service on the Frisco line was discontinued in March 1933,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2020/04/05/pokin-around-chadwick-flyer-railroad-train-line-ozark-greenways/2942811001/ |title= Pokin Around: Plans call for part of Chadwick Flyer spur line to become recreational trail | publisher=Steve Pokin, Springfield News-Leader, April 4, 2020}}</ref> and in 1934 the line from Ozark to Chadwick was abandoned entirely.<ref name=Frisco />