Blunt, South Dakota: Difference between revisions

Blunt was named for John E. Blunt, a railroad official.<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Federal Writers' Project]]|title= South Dakota place-names, v.1-3|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027015455;view=1up;seq=87|year=1940|publisher=University of South Dakota|page=27}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA45|year=1908|page=45}}</ref> Blunt was founded in 1881 as a stop on the [[Chicago and North Western Transportation Company|Chicago and North Western Railway]]. It received its city rights in 1884.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | accessdate=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=983| isbn=1135948593 }}</ref>