Thanks for the info on the Arpin place names. We're their descendents and always wondered how the name graced so many places. Carla ----- Original Message ----- From: <JVB56@aol.com> To: <WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:05 PM Subject: [WIWOOD] Wood Co place names > Arpin > A railroad station and an unincorporated village in secs 21 and 28, Arpin > Township, on the Soo Line and the Chicago and North Western RR, at the > intersection of state highway 186 and co trunk N. Named for the original > village of Arpin about 3/4 m E of this site, in SW sec 22 established by John > and Antoine Arpin, lumbermen, in the early 1890s around their sawmill. In > 1891 when the Port Edwards, Centralia, and Northern Ry linked Port Edwards > and Marshfield,