Linn, Kansas is located on Kansas Highway 9. The town was planned in a boxcar in 1877. Linn was first named "Summit" by surveyors, because it was at the highest point of the Missouri Pacific Branch. The name was changed to Linn when the town applied for a post office.
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The town as named after a physician and politician named Lewis Fields Linn, who served as U.S. Senator from 1833 to 1843. Senator Linn was instrumental in the acquisition of the Oregon Territory. The first plat of the city was filed in 1883.
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