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The name of the Mad River has several popular origins (1) for General "Mad" Anthony Wayne.{{Fact|date=February 2007}; (2)for its former wild erratic flow and tortuous channel; but (3)Moses (1878) quotes original sources that its original name in the Native American tongue was "River of Anger" because they brought their captives to a site near the river's headwaters for exacution by burning

Reference Moses, T.F. 1878. Report of the Antiquities of Mad River Valley. Proc. Central Ohio Scientif. Assoc. Urbana, Ohio 1:25.