Editing Ellington, Missouri (section)

==History==
Ellington, formerly known as Barnesville, was renamed in 1856 for Sina Huff Ellington, who permitted a railroad line to be extended through her family's farmland. An early variant name was "Logan's Creek".<ref name="History">{{cite web|title=Reynolds County Place Names, 1928–1945|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_reynolds.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071725/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_reynolds.html|archive-date=June 24, 2016|access-date=December 13, 2016|publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri}}</ref> A post office called Logan's Creek was established in 1845, and the name was changed to Ellington in 1895.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Reynolds | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=13 December 2016}}</ref>

The [[Civil War Fortification at Barnesville]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1998.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>