The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Seneca was platted by European Americans in 1869, following the Civil War. The city was named for the Seneca Nation, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League, or Haudenosaunee, who had been historically based in New York and south of the Great Lakes.
In the 1830s, many of the Seneca people still in the East had been pushed west of the Mississippi River into Indian Territory, which included parts of present-day Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. "This tribe was moved to the Indian Territory not many miles west of town. The word is a corruption of the Dutch word "Sinnekaas," a term applied to them."
A post office called Seneca has been in operation since 1869.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Seneca’s history is told.
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.