Port Edwards began as early as 1840, when John Edwards, Sr., in partnership with Henry Clinton, built a sawmill there. The place was then, and for a number of years afterward known as Frenchtown. The name of the village was changed from Frenchtown to Port Edwards in 1869.

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[Source: Jones, George. History of Wood County, p. 245.]