Blairstown, Louisiana

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Louisiana}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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|subdivision_name2 = East Feliciana Parish

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|area_code = 225

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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–}}

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