Editing Freistatt, Missouri (section)

==History==
Freistatt was laid out in 1873.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_lawrence.html |title=Lawrence County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=October 25, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071704/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_lawrence.html |archivedate=June 24, 2016 }}</ref> The community was named by German settlers after the town of [[Freistatt]]<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n81 184]}}</ref> in [[Lower Saxony, Germany]]. The settlers established [[Trinity Lutheran Church (Freistatt, Missouri)|Trinity Lutheran Church]] in 1874 and opened a Lutheran school in 1875, both of which remain important institutions in the village.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.joplinglobe.com/news/freistatt-church-celebrates-th-anniversary/article_9d95d0c6-3b3c-11e4-93d6-272c91174ef5.html|title=Freistatt church celebrates 140th anniversary|last=Brown|first=Rich|date=September 13, 2014|website=[[The Joplin Globe]]|language=en|access-date=April 22, 2019}}</ref> The Freistatt post office was in operation from 1884 until 2013. It is now a private residence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Lawrence |title=Post Offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=October 25, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026164811/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Lawrence |archivedate=October 26, 2016 }}</ref>