Editing Oelrichs, South Dakota (section)

==History==

[[File:Grabill - The Interview (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Harry Oelrichs (second from left) speaking with tribal leaders in 1887]]
[[File:St. Martin's Catholic Church Oelrichs SD.jpg|left|thumb|St. Martin's Catholic Church]]

Oelrichs was laid out in 1885.<ref>{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|author-link=Federal Writers' Project|title=South Dakota place-names, v.1-3|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027015455;view=1up;seq=139|year=1940|publisher=University of South Dakota|page=52}}</ref> The town was founded by Henry (Harry) Oelrichs, superintendent of the Anglo-American Cattle Company.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA109|year=1908|page=109}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=May 29, 1902 |title=Harry Oelrichs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/05/29/archives/death-list-of-a-day-harry-oelrichs.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=December 8, 2019 |quote=For a time he was Superintendent of the Anglo-American Cattle Company in Dakota, where he founded a town that bears his name.  }}</ref> A post office called Oelrichs has been in operation since 1885.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=SD&county=Fall+River | title=Fall River County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=March 24, 2015}}</ref>