Shake - Rag Street (Mineral Point) [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Shake - Rag Street (Mineral Point) [origin of place name]

Shake - Rag Street (Mineral Point) [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society
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At Mineral Point the Cornish women at mealtime shook a rag toward the eastern ridge where the men worked at their windlasses to tell them it was time to eat.

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[Source: Milwaukee Sentinel, 16 Dec. 1946.]