How Kappa came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Kappa.
In 1833, Thomas Dixon became the first settler in the area that would later become Kappa. Over the next few years, additional settlers arrived, and the Illinois Central Railroad built a line through the community. Rail service and a post office commenced in the early 1850s. The first postmaster, William Jones, proposed the name Montrose, but the Illinois Central Railroad favored Kappa. The name Roxan was used between May 1852 and December 1853 before Kappa was officially adopted.
A folk etymology claims Kappa is named for the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet, as it was supposedly the tenth town between Dunleith (now East Dubuque) and Bloomington. The true origin, however, is a corruption of Quapaw, a Native American people of the region.
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