Oshkosh
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- Names
Oshkosh
- Place Type
- political
- Description
- Began as a French fur-trading post; named for a local Menominee Amerindian chief; grew as a major lumbering center in the second half of the 19th cen.; downtown district destroyed by fire in 1875; now a center for woodworking & leather finishing.
- Source
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
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