The community was a company town focused on logging and timber production, and existed as a populated area into the 1940s.
The community was first known as Glenavon, after the Tacoma Eastern Railroad established a station at the crossing of East Fork Tilton River after the completion of a rail line from Ashford to Morton in 1910.
[5] The area shows few signs of the logging operation, but both sides of the road through this section are dotted with houses and businesses, all of which bear a Morton address, though they are outside the limits of the town proper.
By 1928, there were two train stops bracketing Lindberg, East Fork (formerly Glenavon) to the north and Coal Canyon to the south.
[1] The GNIS lists location as unknown,[10] however period maps (1920-1930 census districts) show Lindberg on State Route 7, about three miles north of the U.S. Route 12 junction, where the East Fork Tilton River joins Tilton River.