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Agnew [origin of place name]

Term: Agnew origin of place name | Wisconsin Historical Society
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Named for a civil engineer on the Wisconsin Central Railroad when the line was first built.

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[Source: Thomas Edwards, in the Ashland Press, April 2, 1926]