Reverend Jesse Vogler[2] and John Kilbuck, and 72 Christianized Munsee Indians, came to the area aboard the St. Peters.

The Munsee Moravian Mission was located in the Westfield settlement.

[3] On December 8, 1874, the James-Younger Gang are believed to have robbed a Kansas Pacific Railroad there of $30,000.

Grinter Place in the Grinter Heights neighborhood is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A ferry that was used on the military route between Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and Fort Scott, Kansas crossed the river here.