Term: Nasewaupee [origin of place name]
Definition: Name of a Menominee Indain chief who had a village a few miles west of the new post office... When the town was orgainzed in Nov. 1859, it received the named of the post office. page 439 of Holand, Hist. of Door County, WI. v.1.
[Source: Card file at the WHS Library reference desk]