Editing Merrill, Iowa (section)

== History ==
Merrill was named in 1872 for [[List of Governors of Iowa|the seventh Governor of Iowa]], [[Samuel Merrill (Iowa governor)|Samuel Merrill]].<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=PA183|year=1908|page=183}}</ref> It and became an [[Municipal corporation|incorporated city]] on April 24, 1894.<ref name=SoSIowa>{{cite web|url= http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/MiscFilings/IncCities.pdf|title= LIST OF INCORPORATED CITIES|publisher= Iowa Secretary of State|accessdate= 2011-07-04|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110627041140/http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/MiscFilings/IncCities.pdf|archive-date= 2011-06-27|url-status= dead}}</ref>

In 2007, the city hired [[Drake University]] public relations seniors to research and develop strategies to attract new residents.