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==History== Gorin was founded in 1857 and is named for Reverend M.G. Gorin and Major J.H.M. Gorin, both early settlers to the area.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA362 | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=362}}</ref> The town primarily owes its growth to the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad]], which was finishing construction in the area in the 1880s. A depot was built in the fledgling town, which began to experience steady growth.<ref>''A History of Northeast Missouri'', Edited by Walter Williams, The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, 1913.Pg.611</ref> By 1913 it had grown to be [[Scotland County, Missouri|Scotland County's]] second-largest town. The business community featured two banks, two hotels, multiple grocery drug, and hardware stores along with restaurants, a farm implement dealer and factory manufacturing wagons and buggies. A weekly newspaper, the ''Gorin Argus'' was also published for several years. The Prairie Oil & Gas Company, a division of Standard Oil, built a pumping station for their cross-country pipeline also. A new school building was built in Gorin in 1907 for elementary through tenth grade students and continued in use for many decades before consolidation with the Scotland County R-1 school district.
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