The Trego post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Mills (1889), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 908120 years
Founding year: the first Trego post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
What stands out about Trego’s past
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Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Trego yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Trego is a town in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 908 at the time of the 2020 census. The census-designated place of Trego is located in the town. Trego is located at the junction of U.S. routes 53 and 63, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-northeast of Spooner. Trego has a post office with ZIP code 54888.
Its first post office opened in 1906. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 932 to 908 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Trego in 1884
Passages that mention Trego, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Trego says in his manuscript: In the year 1848 I happened to learn that there was a person in London named William Trego, of some note as an architect and builder, and hoping to learn something of interest concerning the family, I wrote to him requesting information. He was too much engaged in business to answer my inquiries ; but I received several letters from his
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A historical account of the Trego family1884 · page 9Read the page →
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ham began a settlement. From writings and traditional accounts I think there is no doubt but that Peter Trego, and his .wife Judith, came over in one of the three ships which landed in this country, October 28th, 1682. The fifty acres of land which were granted to Peter Trego, were situated on the ridge between Chester and Ridley Creeks, in the township of Middletown, now in
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Trego, 1889 to 1965
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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