Blairstown, Louisiana
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Louisiana}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
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|subdivision_name1 = Louisiana
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|subdivision_name2 = East Feliciana Parish
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|timezone = Central (CST)
|utc_offset = -6
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|postal_code = 70722
|area_code = 225
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|blank_info = 553708{{GNIS|553708|name=Blairstown, Louisiana}}
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Blairstown is an unincorporated community in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located less than {{convert|4|mi|km|abbr=off}} north of Pride and {{convert|8|mi|km|abbr=off}} 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.{{cite book|author1=John Stover Arndt|author2=Warren Smedley Ely|title=The Story of the Arndts: The Life, Antecedents and Descendants of Bernhard Arndt who Emigrated to Pennsylvania in the Year 1731|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCt5rlThXzwC&pg=PA251|year=1922|publisher=Christopher Sower Company|pages=251–}}
References
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{{East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana}}
Category:Unincorporated communities in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Category:Unincorporated communities in Louisiana
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