In A Field Guide To Mineral Point (Mineral Point Historical Society, 2012), Nancy Pfotenhauer writes: Mineral Point started as a wild and wooly frontier town. The discovery of lead in 1828 attracted dirt-poor hard-scrabble diggers, educated second sons, land speculators, lawyers, and lawless desperadoes . . . The very first to arrive were Yankees from… Read More…
Twenty-two yearbooks and other publications from schools in the village of Scandinavia in Waupaca County, Wisconsin are now available online from the Scandinavia Public Library. Although no schools remain in the community, from 1877-1932 the village was home to Scandinavia Academy (renamed Central Wisconsin College in 1920), a junior college supported by the Norwegian Lutheran… Read More…
Slides and handout from the Winding Rivers Library System’s Exploring Cultural History Online kickoff event, La Crosse, Wisconsin, June 19, 2014. The WRLS ECHO project is an LSTA-funded initiative to digitize photographs and postcards held by member libraries and local historical societies in the region. Handout (pdf)… Read More…
