Lake Linden was named for an early settler. A fire destroyed most of Lake Linden in 1887.[1]
Lake Linden hosted minor league baseball from 1904 to 1906. The Lake Linden Lakers played as members of the Class C level Northern-Copper Country League and Copper Country Soo League.
Lake Linden was the site of a large plant to process the copper ore of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. Calumet and Hecla shut down the operation in 1968.
A portion of the village was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Lake Linden Historic District in 2009.