I wonder how they ended up naming it Duluth. There is a connection to Daniel Greysolon in Duluth, Georgia as well as our fair city.

The history of Duluth KS is spare, however by filling in the gaps:  Duluth, KS was settled by the Doelitz family from Prussian province of Pomerania.   They changed to town name Duluth in 1909. Why?  Perhaps they had hopes of replicating go-go Minnesota Duluth (1909); as coldly unsentimental Kansans have a history of changing town names, solely for promotional purposes.  Or maybe they just wanted to swindle new immigrants looking for land.  The town was dissolved six years later when the settlers' adorable pet dogs turned on the town folk.  The non-stop yipping, while never quite bad enough to call the Sheriff, was heard as far away as Topeka.

TimK, there is no Daniel Greysolon connection to Duluth, Georgia. They named Duluth, Ga after our Duluth because of the Proctor Knott speech, as sort of a joke and because of a RR connection. 

If you read the same website I did, the confusion comes when they refer to the City of Duluth (MN) and the town of Duluth (GA). The writer of the website makes it sound like the Sioux and Saulters (?) lived in Georgia. They did not. It's just a poor editing job, I think.

pH seems to be correct that settlers from Doelitz in Prussia gave Doelitz, KS its original name. Genealogy records show a bunch of folks from Doelitz, Pomerania settling in Pottawatomie County in the late 1800s. 

By 1912, the renamed Duluth KS had a post office. The Duluth P.O. closed in 1986. That's about all I can find.

I just searched the electronic editions of two ginormous books of Kansas history and neither book makes a mention of either Duluth or Doelitz. Likewise, the Kansapedia at the Kansas Historical Society has no entry for either name.

Did you know there is also a Minneapolis, KS? Coincidence or conspiracy?

Was it ever Du Lhut, MN?  Reckon if the anglos  wanted to fully de-French it, could have made it 'Dull Hut'.  I think we did alright.

Proctor.