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Linden Historical Society Preservingthehistory of the LindenWisconsinarea. LINDEN WISCONSIN In 1827 a traveling Irish peddler by the name of Patrick OMeara camped on the bank of a creek and while searching for firewood stumbled over an outcropping of lead. A new mining camp first known as Peddlers Creek and later Linden came into existence on the area of this chance discovery. Skilled miners from Cornwall and Yorkshire England immigrated to Linden starting in the 1830s.