The stories behind the names listed here have been drawn from Tom Savage's excellent "A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names" (University ... Story behind the name: Local history has it that, after ...

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A portrait of Lewis Field Linn from "History of Linn County ... OK, so now we had a name, but we also had a question: Why would an area in Iowa be named for a Missouri senator?

A year later, Iowa City elected its first female mayor ... Boyd said he wrote up a proposal to nominate Rogers’ name. “I thought it was a fitting place to honor her in history,” he said. He said ...