Editing Linwood, Nebraska (section)

==History==
An attempt to settle the area was first made in 1857, on the banks of Skull Creek, a half-mile from current-day Linwood. A school was established in 1865, and a postmaster for the settlement, originally named Skull Creek, was appointed in 1868.<ref name="UNL">{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/butler/linwood/ | title=Linwood, Butler County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=July 31, 2014}}</ref> It was later renamed Linwood for the [[Tilia|linden]] trees growing near the creek.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 | pages=30| isbn=0803250606 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA94|year=1908|page=94}}</ref> Linwood was incorporated as a village in 1888, shortly after the [[Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad]] built a line through the settlement.<ref name="UNL" /> Linwood served as a junction point for branch rail lines going to [[Superior, Nebraska|Superior]] and [[Hastings, Nebraska|Hastings]]. Those rail lines were abandoned by the early 1960s, leaving Linwood without rail service.<ref name="rail">{{cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/74c8f985-d3ed-45c3-9a72-1fd92ec9ee65/| title=Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Depot, Dwight, Nebraska |last=|first=|work=NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY--NOMINATION FORM|date=|page=| accessdate=November 22, 2017}}</ref> A 1963 flood devastated the community.