Wasco was platted in 1883 and the Wasco Church of Christ, Christian was built in 1888, the same year the first school was built. Members of this church about 1904 included the Anson, Coy, Gibson, Harper, Hill, Hines, Howell, Laughter, Mathias, Miller, Root, Sink, Sorber, Van Gilder, Walter, Webb and Wilde families.
~ Jerry Krewson; Kaseberg, Gleanings of the History of Sherman County Methodists, 1977.