The name was suggested to Mrs. Abigail A. (Whitemore) Heminway by the natural features of the southern half of the town - the springs being in section 19 and 20 and discharging themselves into Spring Brook, a branch of Sugar Creek.

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[Source: Beckwith's History of Walworth County, p. 405.]