History · Brockway

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The Town of Brockway was organized out of a portion of the town of Albion in the early 1890s. It was named for Eustace L. Brockway, an area sawmill and steamboat operator who served in the Wisconsin legislature in 1872.

The town of Komensky was organized from a portion of the town of Brockway in 1913.

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