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History · Savage

Savage’s post office opened in 1910, and 34% of its homes were built before 1940

1910first post office
0on the National Register
34%homes built before 1940
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How Savage began

When was Savage founded?

1910

The Savage post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 303116 years
Founding year: the first Savage post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Savage’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Savage are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Savage’s homes were built before 1964.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Savage’s history is told.

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The story

How Savage came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Savage.

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Savage is named for H. M. Savage, supervising engineer for the U. S. Reclamation Service. For many years it was a busy shipping point for grain farmers and river-bottom beet growers. Sugar beet farms benefited with the opening of a sugar beet factory in Sidney in 1925.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Savage

Nobody well known was born in Savage itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Adam MorrisonAmerican basketball player · b. 1984
Chuck StevensonRacecar driver · b. 1919
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Leila Ben YoussefTunisian pole vaulter · b. 1981
Kamran InceAmerican composer · b. 1960
Mike PersonAmerican football player · b. 1988
Mason TobinAmerican baseball player · b. 1987
Places that used to be

Old corners and burying grounds

Savage’s post office has been open since 1910.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Knife River
1cemetery inside Savage
Riverview

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Savage’s history

What year was Savage founded?

The Savage post office opened in 1910, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.