Argentine, Kansas

[1] Built on the site of a former Shawnee reservation, the proximity of the railroad, local lumber sources, the smeltery, and in later years, steel manufacturing, meant that the city enjoyed a considerable amount of economic success for quite some time.

Prominent nearby landmarks include Argentine Carnegie Library (the last Carnegie library in the Kansas City metropolitan area), the grave of Tecumseh's brother, the Shawnee prophet Tensquatawa at White Feather Spring, Sauer Castle at 945 Shawnee Road, and the Argentine mural located at 30th Street and Metropolitan Avenue.

The name was chosen to reflect that it serves the entire southern region of the city and not a single neighborhood.

[6] By 1998 it, on the National Register of Historic Places, was the sole remaining Carnegie library in the city.

[7] In 2012 the current South Branch opened, and it cost $6 million, with a third of it made in fundraisers by local residents.