The county took its name from the Wadena trading post of the old trail from Crow Wing to Otter Tail City and Pembina, situated on the west bluff of the Crow Wing River at its crossing in Thomastown Township.1
https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Wadena_County,_Minnesota_Genealogy
1Upham, Warren; Minnesota Geographic Names, Their Origin and Historic Significance; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minn., 1969); p. 560.
http://www.co.wadena.mn.us/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=364
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