So you've always wanted to know how some streets came to have alphabetical letters for names? Well, beginning with the street that leads up the hill to the cemetery and going east, they spell N E I L S O N.

Dugal & James Neilson founders of Lind. In 1888 they built the first Lind residence and a year later they built and stocked a store and resumed postal service. They also platted the Town.

THE ROOSTER’S NEST

Minerva Magnolia* was Lind’s first (and last) Madam. Originally, she ‘set up shop’ in a little house on the hill where she developed a strong customer base. Business thrived until 1914 when an up-standing citizen was killed leaving her place of business in the early morning. (The wife of the victim was never convicted of murder. She simply packed up and moved from Lind!) The scandal forced Minerva to close her doors, but she never quit dreaming of being a successful business owner, even in a struggling economy. In 1988, she rented an apartment above Slim’s Tavern. However, blame it on the times, blame it on Minerva, (or blame it on the red dress that she has worn for 90+ years) the business has continued to ‘go down hill!’ Minerva rarely moves unless she falls off her stool. She simply sits there, day after day, night after night, watching and waiting.

* The name has been changed to protect her identity.

Charlie Morgan hauled wheat 12 miles to Lind in 1906. The first building (left) is the General Store owned by George Knee, then Charlie Austin's Harness Shop, and the two buildings at the right housed the Simmons Furniture and Undertaking Business. These businesses lined the street from the current Bank of Whitman down to the Lind Grange.

Gottlieb & Lydia Sackmann Family
Back: Albert, Martin, William,
Alfred, Godfrey, Reinhold
Middle: Mary, Lydia, Elsie,
Emma, Hilda, Martha
Front: Rebecca, Emil, Lydia, Gottlieb, Margaret, Ella, Bertha

Adams County's largest family!

1955
War plane lookout located on the NE
corner of "I" and 8th. Wes Tallent
on watch.

Lind Airport, Circa 1929

Everyone gets into the act while building the Lind airport.

Bank of Lind, 1901

The building is currently owned by Floyd "Skip" Thompson.

One of Lind's famous dust storms,
Circa 1930

The first Lind school is barely visible behind the second school. Four schools have been located at this same site, our current Grade School being the fourth.

Lind's third school, Circa 1908.