Editing Concordia, Kansas (section)

===20th century===
[[Carrie Nation]] visited Concordia in the early 1900s.  Records are mixed, but the date is placed between 1908 and 1910. The ''Concordia Blade'' newspaper (now the ''[[Concordia Blade-Empire]]'') reported:
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"Carrie Nation is in town. That wonderfully brave little woman who started the crusade against Kansas saloons lectured at the M.E. Church this afternoon, and will talk again tonight at the courthouse. While in this city she is the guest of Mrs. George Mohr."
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[[Image:Us81.jpg|thumb|right|1912 [[Meridian Highway]] Inspection team]]
A major geographic change in the city and the area occurred on July 9, 1902. The [[Republican River]] flooded near town and broke a dam.  The flooding resulted in re-routing the river by 1/4 of a mile.<ref>''A Proud Past... A Pictorial History of Concordia, Kansas'', by Bell, Rachel Lowrey (1998), Marceline, Missouri: D-Books Publishing, p 10-21</ref>

The year of 1912 brought a major blizzard to Concordia with snow so deep that a Union Pacific train became stuck northeast of town and snowbanks on main street piled as high as peoples' heads. Also in 1912, the first official inspection team for [[Meridian Highway]] (now [[US-81]]) came through Concordia on their tour from [[Canada]] to [[Mexico]].  In 1913, the [[Missouri Pacific Railway]] [[Train station|depot]] was rebuilt after a fire destroyed the old building.

Another flood took place on June 20, 1915.  Damage from the flood was significant but not as wide-sweeping as the flood of 1902.<ref>''A Proud Past... A Pictorial History of Concordia, Kansas'', by Bell, Rachel Lowrey (1998), Marceline, Missouri: D-Books Publishing, p 22-33</ref>

From May 1, 1943 through November 8, 1945, [[Camp Concordia]] was a World War II internment camp for German POWS.