This Week in Odessa History

Krupp was renamed Marlin 95 years ago

Ninety-Five years ago this week, sentiment against Germany during the height of World War I caused the citizens of Krupp, Odessa’s neighboring town 18 miles to the west, to change the name of their community to Marlin.

The following report is from The Odessa Record of 1918:

For some time past, the patriotic citzens of Krupp have rankled in the thought that the name of their abiding place was christened after the home of the largest German gunworks, and there has been growing sentiment for changing the name of Krupp to something that was less objectionable...