Editing Valley Falls, Kansas (section)

==History==
Valley Falls was originally called '''Grasshopper Falls''', from the falls in the Grasshopper River (now known as the [[Delaware River (Kansas)|Delaware River]]).<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ | 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=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n316 209]}}</ref> The first settlement was made there in 1854, and the town was [[plat]]ted in 1855. Many of the town's streets were named after women pioneer settlers.<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 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n822 840]}}</ref>