Editing Robinson, Kansas (section)

==History==
Robinson had its start in the year 1871 by the building of the railroad through that territory.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5zdAAQAAMAAJ/page/n257 150]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC | title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Volume 2 | publisher=Standard Publishing Company | author=Blackmar, Frank Wilson | year=1912 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Qi9cXyTWt9EC/page/n575 589]}}</ref> It was named to honor the first governor of the State of Kansas, [[Charles L. Robinson|Charles Robinson]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Capace|first=Nancy|title=Encyclopedia of Kansas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSFZV1bcgOQC&pg=PA259|date=1 June 2000|publisher=North American Book Dist LLC|isbn=978-0-403-09312-0|page=259}}</ref>  It had formerly been known locally as '''Lickskillet''' derived from the practice of an old trapper who allegedly put his dirty dishes out for his dog to lick clean.<ref>Kansas Place-Names, John Rydjord, University of Oklahoma Press, 1972, p. 327 {{ISBN|0-8061-0994-7}}</ref>