Editing Hayti, Missouri (section)

==History==
Hayti was [[plat]]ted in 1894, when the railroad was extended to that point.<ref name="History">{{cite web | url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_pemiscot.html | title=Pemiscot County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | access-date=November 29, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071957/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_pemiscot.html | archive-date=June 24, 2016 | url-status=live}}</ref> According to one tradition, the name honors Dr. G. Hayes, an original owner of the site.<ref name="History" /> It is also claimed the name is derived from the country of [[Haiti]], the name of which was commonly spelled as "Hayti" prior to the twentieth century.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbyjamQWtScC&pg=PA28 | title=Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Ramsay, Robert L. | year=1952 | page=28| isbn=9780826205865 }}</ref> A post office called Hayti has been in operation since 1895.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Pemiscott | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=29 November 2016}}</ref>