Savoy was one of a long series of towns platted by a subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway, after the GN built its line across Montana ... and like many of those towns, it was given a name borrowed from a map of Europe. No one's quite sure why the GN did that, but it sure made the railroad's timetables more evocative. It didn't do quite as much for the towns themselves, though ...

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