Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: old-book passages.
The Lynn post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lynn’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Lynn.
The history of Lynn, Wisconsin is deeply rooted in the early settlement and development of Clark County. Topics covered in the history of Clark County, Wisconsin, include topography, Indians, early government, early settlement, politics, lumbering, transportation, agriculture, education, the press, the courts, religious life.
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Passages that mention Lynn, cut from the printed page as they were published.
He was a worker in iron, a " forgeman" ; which gives rise 1o the inquiry whether he might not have been employed in the Iron Works at Lynn ; of which more elsewhere. The Lynn Iron Works were in that part of Lynn which is now the town of Saugus ; a town now lying between Lynn and Maiden. It is but an hour^s walk from those Iron Works to Maiden village.
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It is quite remarkable that of tvvo writers, each of them professedly giving the history of New England, one takes notice of tlie Iron Worits at Lynn, and says nothing of Bniintrec ; while the other speaks largely of the Iron Works at Braintree, with barely a word of Lynn. And this, too, while attributing a high degree of importance to the iron manufacture Johnson, speaking of Lynn in 1651, merely says — " There is also an Iron Mill in constant use." After having, in a maimer so ample, related the establishment of the iron manufacture at Braintree, and expressed the hope that in consequence of it exports in iron would soon be added to a long list of
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Lynn itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Lynn had its own post office from 1869 to 1903.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Lynn post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
