Editing Ahnapee, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
The name ''Ahnapee'' is of [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]] origin. It is derived from ''anin api'' ("when").<ref>Verwyst, Chrysostom. 1892. "[http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/whc/id/7169 Geographical Names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, Having a Chippewa Origin]," ''Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin'' 12: 390–398.</ref>

The first settlers of the area came from [[Manitowoc, Wisconsin|Manitowoc]] in 1851, the town's first mill and store opened in 1855, and regular river travel from the port started in 1856.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Maze |first=Adele H. |date=September 1, 1922 |title=Whitney's Mills |url=https://archive.org/details/jstor-4630414 |journal=The Wisconsin Magazine of History |volume=6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/jstor-4630414/page/n1 121] |via= Internet Archive}}{{comment|Note:}} It is very possible that the text supporting this citation precedes the actual article whose metadata appears here.</ref> The village of Ahnapee was incorporated in 1873, and got its first mayor in 1879, Samuel Perry.<ref name=":0" /> The village (and later city) of Ahnapee was renamed "Algoma" in 1897. The region's first newspaper, ''The Ahnapee Record'', was established in 1873.<ref name=":0" /> A rail line first reached the town in 1882.<ref name=":0" />