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History · Lynnville

Lynnville’s post office opened in 1849, and 54% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Lynnville Mill and Dam. Below: maps from 1980 on and the census since 1880.

1849first post office
1on the National Register
54%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Lynnville began

When was Lynnville founded?

1849

The Lynnville post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1856.

First census: 296 in 18802020 census: 380177 years
Founding year: the first Lynnville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1856.The full story ↓

What stands out about Lynnville’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 Lynnville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Lynnville’s homes were built before 1938.Deep rootsA post office since 1849: 177 years of Lynnville.
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Start Lynnville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lynnville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story

How Lynnville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Lynnville.

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Lynnville was laid out in 1856. The town was named for a linden grove near the original town site. Lynnville was incorporated in 1875.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Lynnville, 1849 to 1980

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1849Post officeThe Lynnville post office opens
  3. 1876Born hereLallah Rookh White Rockwell is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1980On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Lynnville, decade by decade

Today3 recent
LynnvilleIAMillMuseum2025LynnvilleIAMillMuseumLynnvilleIACityHall2025LynnvilleIACityHallIAMap-doton-Lynnville2004IAMap-doton-Lynnville
On the map

Lynnville on the map in 1980

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Lynnville.

Lynnville on the 1980 USGS map1980Sully sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Lynnville.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Lynnville

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1977
Lynnville Mill and Dam
Lynnville Mill and Dam
Buildings
Lynnville Mill and DamBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Lynnville, census by census

010020030040050018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 461

Between 261 and 461 people in every census since 1880.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Lynnville’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Lynnville’s post office has been open since 1849.

Gone or out of use
LynnvillelocaleWagaman Millbuilding
1cemetery inside Lynnville
Woodland

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

Questions about Lynnville’s history

What year was Lynnville founded?

The Lynnville post office opened in 1849, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1856.

What is on the National Register in Lynnville?

One place: the Lynnville Mill and Dam (listed 1977).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 Wikimedia Commons (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via 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.