Wisconsin Room
Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00-8:00, Friday 9:00-5:00, Saturday 9:00-1:00
     The Wisconsin Room contains a variety of materials available for research on Crawford County, Prairie du Chien, and area residents.  All of the material is non-circulating.

Microfilm

·         Prairie du Chien Newspapers

o   Patriot  September 22, 1846 – August 13, 1851

o   The Courier  May 19, 1852 – May 21, 1853

                      May 22, 1856 – December 30, 1866

                      January 25, 1870 – December 2004

o   Leader  July 18, 1857 – July 1860

o   The Union  March 18, 1864 – August 4, 1865

                   January 27, 1871 – January 1, 1914

o   Crawford County Standard Bearer  May 25, 1864 – June 24, 1864

o   Crawford County Press  September 8, 1871 – May 23, 1873

                                        October 20, 1915 – August 28, 1918

o   The Prairie Spy  1963, 1964

 

·         Census Records

o   Federal Census for Crawford County – 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910,   1920, 1930

Wisconsin State Census for Crawford County – 1895, 1905

·         Fort Crawford Post Returns 1816-1856

Printed Self-published Genealogies

Printed Material

·         Wisconsin

o   Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volumes I – XX

o   Wisconsin Magazine of History, scattered volumes 1939 – Present

·         Crawford County

o   History of Crawford and Richland Counties, 1884.  Index

o   Southwestern Wisconsin Old Crawford County, Volumes I-IV, 1932.

o   Post Offices and Postmasters of Early Crawford County, Wisconsin, 2000.

·         Rural Schools of Crawford County, 2002.

Prairie du Chien

o   Prairie du Chien: French, British, American. Peter Scanlan, 1937.

o   Old Fort Crawford. Bruce Mahan, 1926.

o   The Grand Council and Treaty at Prairie du Chien 1925. Ch. Abele.

o   History Tales from Prairie du Chien, Volume 1 and 2. Martin Dyrud.

o   Miscellaneous Prairie du Chien Directories and Telephone Books.

·         Schools

o   Prairie du Chien High School Yearbooks 1911 – Present

o   Campion Jesuit High School Yearbooks 1925 – 1975

o   Campion Jesuit High School Directories 1939 – 1975

o   St. Mary’s Academy The Black Hawk Quarterly, June 1922 – 1938

o   St. Mary’s Academy The Lantern Yearbook 1963, 1967, 1968.

·         Indexes

o   Marriages from The Union 1874 – 1888

o   Obituaries from The Union 1864 – 1888

o   Burials – St. Gabriel’s Cemetery, Calvary Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery

 

Miscellaneous

·         19th century of editions of books written by residents of Prairie du Chien

·         19^th ephemera written by and/or about residents of Prairie du Chien

·         Local imprints on various topics of Crawford County and Prairie du Chien history

·         Vertical file of newspaper clippings

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