Trade River

The Trade River is a 50.8-mile-long (81.8 km) tributary of the St. Croix River in northwestern Wisconsin in the United States. In its history, it has been known by the names "Atanwa" or "Ottoway" River, both of which are Anglicized versions of an Ojibwe language word meaning "trade" (see Ottawa). Beneath the mouth of the Trade River, the St. Croix River was once known as the Grave-marker River.
The Trade River begins in the Straight Lake Tunnel Channel Woods in northern Polk County, Wisconsin, and flows northward before bending westward to meet the South Fork a few miles south of Frederic...