Editing Sauk Centre, Minnesota (section)

==History==
The town was originally named by a lottery. The eight original town shareholders submitted suggestions for a name, and Sauk Centre was selected. The name was submitted by Alexander Moore, who originally bought and platted the town. Sauk refers to the many place names associated with the [[Sauk people|Sauk tribe]] ([[Sauk River (Minnesota)|Sauk River]], [[Sauk Rapids, Minnesota|Sauk Rapids]], [[Little Sauk Township, Todd County, Minnesota|Little Sauk]], [[Osakis, Minnesota|Osakis]], etc).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burnquist |first1=JA |title=Minnesota and Its People |date=1924 |pages=88}}</ref> Centre (the British spelling of "center") refers to the town's central location between Sauk Rapids and Lake Osakis. When the Sauk Centre post office was established it used the spelling "Sauk Center", until 1936 when the city won its fight to spell the name as Moore suggested.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ho23eS5qjNgC&dq=sauk+centre+name+battle+with+post+office&pg=PA573|title=Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia|date=2001|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|isbn=978-0-87351-396-8|language=en}}</ref> Local lore has it that five refugees from the Sauk tribe had been killed by settlers in an ambush on the shores of Lake Osakis {{Convert | 17 | mi}} away.<ref>{{cite web |title=Minnesota Historical Sites Lake Osakis Minnesota Travel |url=https://visitosakis.com/history |website=Osakis Chamber |access-date=November 30, 2020}}</ref>