Port Edwards is a town in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States.

The part of the town of Port Edwards within three miles of the Wisconsin River was in the "Indian strip," sold by the Menominee to the U.S. government in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars.

[1] In 1839 a crew working for the U.S. government surveyed what would become parts of Port Edwards, walking through the woods and crossing the river, measuring with chain and compass.

For the six mile square that now contains Nekoosa and the village of Port Edwards, they gave this general description: The character of the Soil in this town is very uniform.

The bottom lands tho somewhat better, are sandy & not sufficiently large to make them valuable.

place for refitting rafts after passing the rapids before their final departure for the Mississippi, & a French hamlet on Section 1.

The Islands in the river are all overflowed & are neither valuable for size, soil, or timber & were therefore not meandered.