Linn City was a community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, that existed from 1843 to 1861 and was destroyed in the Great Flood of 1862.
The same year, James Moore, Robert's son, built a lumber mill and a gristmill.
The town's post office opened in 1850, the same year that Robert Moore founded the local newspaper, the Spectator.
A couple of years passed and the same men who left Linn City returned, many of them with their fortunes.
Some of the miners were so rich they refused to work and began to spend the money that their gold hauls brought in.
Citizens watched, helpless, from their windows as the water rose at a rate of nearly one foot per hour.
No one died in the Linn City flood, but the destruction was simply too great for the town to recover.