Travel Back in Time to Stevens Point

PBS Wisconsin, in its ongoing local history project, Wisconsin Hometown Stories, featured Stevens Point. It tells the story of a city shaped by its distinctive geography and natural resources in Central Wisconsin. The episode even visited some of our favorite places and Recollection Wisconsin partners, McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Historical Society, and UW Stevens Point Archives and Area Research Center!

Main Street, Looking West, Stevens Point, Wis. [1920]
Main Street, Looking West, Stevens Point, Wis. [1920]. McMillan Memorial Library.
Beer riot of 1967
Beer riot of 1967. After breaking through police lines, university and high school students march down Clark Street in protest of Governor Knowles’ proposed increase in the minimum beer drinking age from 18 to 21. UWSP Archives and Area Research Center:
Schmeeckle Reserve
Schmeeckle Reserve. Senator Gaylord Nelson and Schmeeckle Reserve, director Ron Zimmerman, tour the reserve during Earth Week in 1988. The Reserve Is a 280-acre conservancy area on the campus of UW-Stevens Point, set aside to protect natural communities of central Wisconsin. UWSP Archives and Area Research Center.
Stevens Point 1891
Sanborn Fire Insurance map of Stevens Point 1891. Wisconsin Historical Society.
Stevens Point paper mill, 1937.
Stevens Point paper mill, 1937. From Volume 1 of 100 years of pictorial & descriptive history of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. McMillan Memorial Library.
Looking north down Fremont Street from the southeast corner of Old Main.
Looking north down Fremont Street from the southeast corner of Old Main. UWSP Archives and Area Research Center.