Port Edwards is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The village is located northeast and next to the Town of Port Edwards. The population was 1,818 at the 2010 census.

Port Edwards was known as “Frenchtown” until 1869, when it was renamed in great compliment of John Edwards, a local mill owner.

The treaty formed nearly a sawmill built just about 1829. It was first owned by Messrs. Grignon and Merrill, who similar in the mill for some time. It then passed upon to Merrill and Whitney in 1836. In 1840 the mill was bought by John Edwards Sr. and his partner, Henry Clinton. It was next that the sawmill business, known as the Edwards and Clinton Company, began to prosper. The partnership didn’t last. Because of Clinton’s financial troubles, he had to transfer portions of his equity to Edwards throughout the years. By 1862 Edwards owned 100 percent of the business and misused the herald to John Edwards and Company. A few years later, active management was given over to his son, John Jr. The senior Edwards died In 1871.

Mrs. Edwards wrote of the community in the 1860s, “the agreement was little only consisting of a store, a blacksmith shop, a school, two boarding houses and a number of white houses.” With his realization in the sawmill business, Edwards fixed to rule for the Wisconsin legislature as a Representative in 1890. After his election, he moved to Madison in 1891, leaving his thing to be managed by his son-in-law, Lewis M. Alexander.