 Angelica
was named for the town of Angelica in New York State. The town of
Angelica in this county was settled by New York people, the Ainsworth and
McGees who came early to the town when Will Upham had a sawmill there. |
| Askinette
is named after a Menominee Indian Chief. |
| Bartelme
was so named after a farmer in the new town. |
| Briarton
was so named because after the pine was cut off the territory grew up to
raspberry and black berry bushes. It was a great berry country in
the seventies. (1870's) |
| Cecil
was named after an engineer from the St. Paul Eastern Grand Trunk railway.
He was an Englishman who had come here to do railroad construction work. |
| Fairbanks
was named after the first family of the town. |
| Frazier
is named after George Frazier, well known settler. |
| Germania
is so named because of early settlement of Germans. |
| Gresham
is named after H. Q. Gresham, postmaster general when the post office at
Gresham was established. |
| Grant
is named after the great General, Ulysses Grant. |
| Hartland
was named after a province in Germany. |
| Hofa
Park was named after J. J. Hoff who brought colonies of settlers from
Chicago to settle on the cut-over land. |
| Hunting
is named after the Hunting River, and that was so named because there was
good hunting in that vicinity years ago. |
| Hutchins
was named after Tom Hutchins, early settler. |
| Lessor
was so named after a family by that name. |
| Leopolis
was named after the Greek town of ancient history. Leopolis was founded
in this county by N. M. Edwards of Appleton. |
| Lunds
was named after John Lunds, farmer and business man. |
| Maple
Grove was named after the sugar maples that grew in that vicinity. |
| Morgan
is named after O. E. Morgan who established the mill and lumbering business
at that centre. |
| Pleshek
was named after Franz Pleshek, grandfather of the present generation of
Plesheks. |
| Red
Springs was so named from a stream that runs through the clay deposit
giving it a red color in the spring and after rains. |
| Richmond
was named after Abial Richmond who plated the first plat of Shawano.
He and Danks made later plats. |
| Scott
was named after Courtney Scott, an early logger. |
| Washington
of course was named after the Father of our Country. |
| Wescott
was named after C. D. Wescott, father of the Wescott boys, now the older
settlers living in Shawano. |
