[Verginius Rufus]

Weed is named for an early resident, Abner Weed, a native of Maine who fought in the Civil War and witnessed Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. He died in 1917. I don’t know if Steve Weed, Patty Hearst’s boyfriend at the time of her kidnapping, is related to Abner Weed.

[faithhopecharity]

thanks
well, at least until recently.... Weed was not named for its chief crop