"Named in honor of Mary Poskin, the Indian or half-breed wife of Capt. Andrew Taintor, of the Knapp, Stout and Co., the lumbermen, who had a camp at the lake."

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[Source: Curtiss-Wedge. History of Barron County, Wis., p. 1136.]