 The railway station at Linden was built in 1874 and was named after Linden Lodge, the home built in 1865 by local businessman William Jolley Henderson.Linden was originally known as Seventeen Mile Hollow because of its location 17 miles (27.35 km) from the Nepean River.It was originally the location of a tollhouse erected in 1849 and demolished in the 1860s during the construction of the railway.