Werley, Wisconsin
Werley is an unincorporated community in the town of Mount Ida, Grant County, Wisconsin, United States, at latitude 43.019 and longitude -90.765, where Star Lane feeds into County Road K, roughly five miles west-northwest of Fennimore.
There used to be a narrow gauge railway run by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway which ran nearby.
Werley was named after local settler and legislator Gottlieb Wehrle, whose name was pronounced "Werley" by the local residents. The community used to be called Climbing Rock.
References
- ^ "Werley, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Werley populated place profile; hometown locator.com
- ^ Hazen, Floyd Willard. Floyd Hazen's History of Werley, Wisconsin and the "Dinky Railroad", C & NW RY: An Anthology of the "Werley Nickel Plate" Fennimore, Wisconsin: Steven Hazen, 2003
- ^ "Term: Werley [origin of place name]" Dictionary of Wisconsin History
- ^ Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 137.
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