Editing Warsaw, Missouri (section)

==History==
The original inhabitants of the area were the Delaware, Shawnee, Sac, Kickapoo, and Osage tribes (namesake of the [[Osage River]] which passed by the city). French settlers visited the area as early as 1719.

Warsaw was [[plat]]ted in 1837.<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 | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n20 209]}}</ref> The city was incorporated in 1843 and designated as the county seat of [[Benton County, Missouri|Benton County]]. The city was named after [[Warsaw]], the capital city of [[Poland]], in honor of the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] hero [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]], who was Polish and had also fought for independence in his homeland.  Warsaw was a steamboat port, the furthest point up the [[Osage River]] they could navigate.<ref>{{cite web|title=Warsaw, Missouri History|url=https://welcometowarsaw.com/city/community/history-awards-and-recognitions//index.aspx?NID=23|publisher=Warsaw City Government|access-date=6 July 2013}}</ref>

Permanent immigrants to the area were Germans, Scotch-Irish, and English, as well as transplant farmers from [[Kentucky]], [[Tennessee]] and the Carolinas, first arriving ''circa'' 1820.

In 1931 the upper reaches of [[Lake of the Ozarks]] reached the community on the Osage River.  The dam for [[Truman Reservoir]] on the Osage River just northwest of the city limits officially opened 1979 after construction began in 1964.  Place names for many lake related businesses including the Harry S. Truman Regional Visitor Center have the Warsaw mailing address even though they are outside the city limits.  The Warsaw city limits do not include Truman Reservoir lakefront.  City limits do include waterfront the upper reaches of the Osage Arm of the Lake of the Ozarks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.visitmo.com/things-to-do/osage-arm-of-lake-of-the-ozarks|title = Visit Missouri &#124; Things to do &#124; Osage Arm of Lake of the Ozarks}}</ref>

The [[Upper Bridge (Warsaw, Missouri)|Upper Bridge]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1999.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>  The bridge is the first crossing of the Osage River below the Truman Dam is actually a crossing of Lake of the Ozarks.