Blairstown is an unincorporated community in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located less than 4 miles (6.4 kilometres) north of Pride and 8 miles (13 kilometres) southeast of Clinton.

Etymology

It is speculated that the community is named after John Insley Blair. In the fall of 1866 a Presbyterian missionary named Rev. John Arndt Reiley migrated to the community from Blairstown, New Jersey.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Blairstown, Louisiana
  2. ^ John Stover Arndt; Warren Smedley Ely (1922). The Story of the Arndts: The Life, Antecedents and Descendants of Bernhard Arndt who Emigrated to Pennsylvania in the Year 1731. Christopher Sower Company. pp. 251–.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blairstown,_Louisiana
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