Brief History from
Kansas State Historical Society:
Linn County was one of
the first 33 counties created by the
Territorial Legislature and was organized
on August 7, 1855, by
R. E. Elliott; L. M. Love; Briscoe
Travis; James P. Fox; Joseph D. Wilmot;
James Driskill; William Rogers; and
Elisha Tucker. It was named for For
Lewis Field Linn, a popular Senator from
Missouri who played a prominent role in
the
acquisition of Oregon Territory, and
contains the cities ofBlue Mound, Parker,
La Cygne, Mound City, Pleasanton and
Prescott.
The Battle of Mine
Creek, October 26, 1864, the Marais des
Cygnes Massacre, May 19, 1858, and the
Battle of Middle Creek,
near Parker on August 25, 1856, when
Texas Rangers from Fort Scott attempted to
capture John Brown are all indicative of
the turmoil in the county during the
territorial period and are all significant
to the county's early development.
The first church was
opened by Jesuit missionaries for the
Pottawatomie Indians near Centerville in
1838. The first fair was
held on October 28, 1871, at Elm
Grove. The first official county fair was
held at Mound City in 1871. The school for
Indians
established near Centerville in 1838
was the first school. The first public
school opened at Moneka, north of Mound
City, on
August 1, 1857.
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