Lucca, a village with three locations and as many names, was first settled v about August 1, 1881. It was located ten miles south-of Tower City just across the county line in Cass County in Section 30, 138-55. It was named "Kibby" or "Kibbyville" in honor of the first postmaster, Mrs. Dinah Kibby. She was the mother-in-law of the promoter of the townsite, Captain Eli C. Northrup.

Captain Northrup was active in promoting a railroad from Milbank northward to Tower City. However, prospects did not brighten until 1884. Meanwhile, Captain Northrup became the postmaster in 1882 and the village (or the post office) was moved to Barnes County in Section 25, Binghamton Township. In 1884 a Mortimer Webster platted a town on the south edge of Kibby and he called it "Binghamton" after his home, Binghamton, New York. A post office was secured August 29, 1884 and Kibby ceased to exist.

In 1887, with the coming of the Soo Line Railroad, the village of Binghamton was moved four miles southwestward to the railroad in Section 11, Raritan township. Here it was re-named "Lucca" by the wife of the chief operating officer of the railroad, Mrs. F. W. Underwood, after a city in Italy.

When the Marion branch of the Northern Pacific was built and crossed the Soo Line about a mile north of the village of Lucca, the townspeople moved the village to the site of the crossing. The former site then became known as "Old Lucca." The new site is located in Section 2, Binghamton township.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 286