Search billions of records on Ancestry.com

Index at research Center

This is the index of the KCHS collections located at the Research Center in Algoma, WI   Compiled by Virginia Feld Johnson
Kewaunee County Historical Society Research Center - Revised 1/30/07

Ahnapee Record Directories Oral Histories
Algoma Histories Fair Photograph File
Annuals-Yearbooks Fishing/Fisheries Picture File
Atlas/Maps Genealogies Schools
Audio Tapes Kewaunee County - Political School Books
Baptisms & Births Kewaunee County History Ships
Blue Books Kewaunee, City of Special Collections
Blue Prints Maps Taxes
Books Marriages Maritime
Cemeteries Microfilm Vertical Files
Census Music Videos And DVDs
Cheese Newspapers George Wing
Churches Non-Historical Collection Wisconsin History
Czech History Obituaries War

 


Top

AHNAPEE RECORD

June 12, 1873; first page of first edition; laminated; an attached note indicates it was part of the Decker Collection; copy in newspaper file.

Top

ALGOMA HISTORIES

Ahnapee/Algoma Business 1874 – 1940. Compiled by Carl J. Braun.

Ahnapee Maritime History, Fred Neuschel, 1992.

Algoma Boat Club: The First 20 Years, John Jorgenson & Clarice Feld-Andre, compiled by Virginia Feld Johnson, 2005.

Algoma Buildings. Compiled by Harold Heidmann.

Algoma: Photo Collection from 4th Street Reconstruction, 2004.

Algoma: Photo Collection from Community Bank, DeGuelle's Liquor Store, Seiler's Gas Station, Shanty Days, firemen’s Celebration, Memorial Day and other events. Compiled by Beverly  Diefenbach.

Algoma Division: U.S. Plywood Corporation; Appears to be ca. 1960.

Algoma Public Schools History, Harvey Cornell. See vertical files – Algoma Public Schools.

An-An-api-sebe, Where is the River, Wolf River and Ahnapee, 1851 –1897, Virginia Feld Johnson  2001.

A Century of Quality Woodworking: 1892-1992 Algoma Hardwoods.

Brief History of Algoma, Wisconsin, Laura Ann Empey, 1960. 

Conversations with Algoma Residents; Compiled by Hans Nell, Ken Wolske and  Virginia Johnson.

Edward Koenig, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Compiled by John Wilterding, 2002.

Elliott-McDonald Papers. Compilation of Frank Elliott and G.I. McDonald’s papers including  Ahnapee/Algoma history, family genealogy, biographies of residents and genealogy.

Groessl-Nesemann Drug Store, Bank deposit book 1941 – 1958, bank check, WI Sellers Permit, License, certificate for the sale of narcotics. See Groessel vertical file.

Land of the Great Gray Wolf, Liz Howell, 1992. Legend of Algoma’s naming and biography of  historian Pearl Foshion.

The Real Shanty Days, Wendell Wilke. Undated.

Wolf River/Ahnapee Lists, Compiled by Carl Braun and Virginia Johnson. Lists of early citizens, firemen, merchants, students, voters, etc.

Wolf River and Ahnapee, early histories by M.T. Parker and George Wing,found in The Record

Women of the Plywood: The World War ll Years, Virginia Feld Johnson, 1997.

See also: Wing, George.

Top

ANNUALS-YEARBOOKS

Algoma

Algoma High School, Class of 1944: A History, Mahlon Dier, 2005. Note: 1944 did not have a yearbook because of paper shortages during World War ll. 

Crescent Beach Echoes 1910

Crescent Beach Echoes 1912 (2 copies)

Crescent Beach Echoes 1913  

Crescent Beach Echoes 1917

Crescent Beach Echoes 1920 (2 copies)

Crescent Beach Echoes 1923 (2 copies)

Scroll of the Wolves 1929 (2 copies)

Scroll of the Wolves 1951

Scroll of the Wolves 1933 (3 copies)

Scroll of the Wolves 1935 (3 copies)

Scroll of the Wolves 1936

Scroll of the Wolves 1938

Scroll of the Wolves 1940

Scroll of the Wolves 1941

Scroll of the Wolves 1942

Scroll of the Wolves 1945

Scroll of the Wolves 1957

Scroll of the Wolves 1959

Scroll of the Wolves 1958

Scroll of the Wolves 1962

Scroll of the Wolves 1963

Scroll of the Wolves 1966

Scroll of the Wolves 1967

Scroll of the Wolves 1970

Scroll of the Wolves 1943

Scroll of the Wolves 1950

 

Scroll of the Wolves 1951

Scroll of the Wolves 1952

Scroll of the Wolves 1953

Scroll of the Wolves 1954

Scroll of the Wolves 1955

Scroll of the Wolves 1956

Scroll of the Wolves 1960

Scroll of the Wolves 1961

Scroll of the Wolves 1964

Scroll of the Wolves 1965

Scroll of the Wolves 1976

Scroll of the Wolves 1977

 

Door-Kewaunee Teachers’ College

Bugler, 1918

 

The Bugler 1922

The Pedagogian 1953

The Pedagogian 1954

Monograph of Door-Kewaunee Teachers’ College (2 copies)

Door Kewaunee County Retired Educators’ Association, 1996

Kewaunee

Lake Whispers 1914

Lake Whispers 1915 (2 copies)

Lake Whispers 1916 (3 copies)

Lake Whispers 1921

Lake Whispers 1922 (3 copies)

Lake Whispers 1923 (2 copies)

Lake Whispers 1924 (2 copies)

Lake Whispers 1925

Lake Whispers 1926 (7 copies)

Lake Whispers 1927 (2 copies)

Lake Whispers 1928 (3 copies)

Lake Whispers 1929 (3 copies)

Lake Whispers 1930 (2 copies)

Lake Whispers 1932

Lake Whispers 1935

Lake Whispers 1936

Lake Whispers 1937

Lake Whispers 1938

Lake Whispers 1940

Lake Whispers 1941

Lake Whispers 1942

Lake Whispers 1943

Lake Whispers 1958

Lake Whispers 1961

Lake Whispers 1965

Lake Whispers 1966 

Lake Whispers 1967

Lake Whispers 1968

Lake Whispers 1973

Lake Whispers 1974

Lake Whispers 1975

Lake Whispers 1976 (2)

Lake Whispers 1977

Lake Whispers 1978

Luxemburg

Memories in Blue 1952

Memories in Blue 1954

Memories in Blue 1957(2)

Memories in Blue 1959

Memories in Blue 1960

Luxemburg-Casco

Spartan 1968-1977

Spartan 1969

Spartan 1972

Spartan 1973

Spartan 1974

Spartan 1975 (2)

Spartan 1976

Spartan 1977

Spartan 1980

Spartan 1981

Spartan 1984

Spartan 1997

Luxemburg-Casco Jr. High 

Memories 1972

Memories 1974

Memories 1975

Memories 1977

Memories 1978          

Top

ATLAS/MAPS 

Algoma, 12 Photographic Maps; 2001 revision.

Algoma, Youngs and Steele Plat, lot owners 1850s – 1873. Compiled by Virginia Feld Johnson.

Atlas of Wisconsin; General Maps and Gazateer, University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.

Door County Index to Township Maps, 1986.

Brown County Plat Book, 1983.

Brown County Plat Book, 1987.

Door County Plat Book, 1975.

Door County Plat Book, 1981.

Door County Plat Book, 1987.

Door County Plat Book, 1990.

Door County Plat Book, 1993.

Index to 1876 and 1912 Plat Maps. Compiled by Carl Braun.

Kewaunee County Arial Survey Maps 1998.

Kewaunee County Atlas, 1947.

Kewaunee County Map, 1991.

Kewaunee County Plat Book, 1895; (shelf and in file)

Kewaunee County Plat Map, 1903

Kewaunee County Plat Book, 1974.

Kewaunee County Plat Book, 1978.

Kewaunee County Plat Book, 1980.

Kewaunee County Plat Book, 1982 through 1984.

Kewaunee County Plat Book, 1986.

Kewaunee County Plat Book, 1989.

Kewaunee County Plat Book, 1991

Kewaunee County Plat Owners in Ahnapee - Undated

Kewaunee Plat Owners in Casco - Undated

Kewaunee County Plat Owners in Red River - Undated

Manitowoc County Plat Book, 1985.

Patent Holders of Kewaunee County, Compiled by Ken Wolske.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map

  Algoma 1894, 1900, 1909 and 1923, Compiled by Ken Wolske.

  Kewaunee 1885-1898 (bound), Compiled by Tom Schuller.

  Kewaunee 1905-1933 (bound), Compiled by Tom Schuller.

Standard Atlas, Kewaunee County Wisconsin, 1912.

Unrivaled Atlas of the World, Rand McNally & Co., 1914.

See also: The Centennial Gazetteer of the United States Geographical and Statistical Encyclopaedia, 1776 – 1786.

Unrivaled Atlas of the World, Rand McNally, c. 1915.

WPA (Works Progress Administration) Town and Village Maps, Cities of Algoma and Kewaunee 

Wisconsin County Maps, Chambers Map Co., Kaukauna, 2002. (Gazateer)

Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records for Township 25N, Range 25 E (Ahnapee); Interior Field Notes, February 1835 – March 1835, Sylvester Sibley.

Top

MAPS (Wall)

1874 Map of Wisconsin and Michigan Counties and Townships

1876 Kewaunee County map 

1875 Kewaunee County Plat Map

1880 Birdseye Sketch of Ahnapee

1880 Birdseye Sketch of Kewaunee

1893 Birdseye Sketch of Ahnapee

1913 Wisconsin Geological Map

1930 Wisconsin Highway Map.

Original Patents and Land Warrants for the Town of Ahnapee.

See also: Maps (vertical file)

Top

BLUE BOOKS

George Miller Collection; most Blue Books dating from 1913.

1895 Blue Book

Top

BLUE PRINTS

Kewaunee Harbor, War Department, 1939

U.S. Plywood (Algoma) 1973

Top

BAPTISMS & BIRTHS

Kewaunee County Residents Baptized at 1st Evangelical Lutheran Church of Maniowoc.

St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sandy Bay (Carlton) to 1911.

Top

BOOKS (Miscellaneous)

1931 Kewaunee County Farm Directory

Address Book for Germanic Genealogy, Ernest Thode, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1991.

A Guide to Wisconsin Museums; Neville Public Museum, 1974.

An Invitation to Visit Wisconsin Historic Homes; Virginia Palmer, 1978.

Articles on Kewaunee County History, Vol. 1. Compilation of newspaper articles.

Articles on Kewaunee County History, Vol. ll. Compilation of newspaper articles.

Articles on the Early History of Kewaunee County. Compilation of news articles.

August and Herman Schuenemann, Fred Neuschel.

Badger, Lake Michigan Carferry, Art Chavez, Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2003., 

Bank of Sturgeon Bay, The First Century 1889-1989, Bill Meindl, 1989.

Border People: The Bohmisch (German-Bohemians) in America, Ken Meter and Robert Paulson,1993.  

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, 50th annual report, 1914

Daylight in the swamp, Robert G. Wells, Wi: Northward Press, Inc. 1978 The book is an excellent history of lumbering in the U.S. and specifically in WI, MN and MI

Door County Almanak: Farms #4, June1987.

Door County, Wisconsin, Soil Survey, 1978

Door-Kewaunee County 1962 Directory. 

Early Americans at Work, Everett B. Wilson, A.S. Barnes & Co, 1963. The book recalls old Occupations and has photographs illustrating them.

Early German Immigrants in Wisconsin, Kate Everest Levi, PhD. And Albert B. Faust, Janesville: Origins, undated.

Encyclopedia of Local History, Carol Kammen and Norma Prendergast, 2000.

Ethnic Landscapes in North America, Allen G. Noble, Editor; John Hopkins University Press,1992. This portion of the original work contains Belgian history in NE Wisconsin only.

Exhibiting Your Heritage, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1985.

Exploring Wisconsin’s Waterways, Margaret Beattie Bogue. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (Reprinted from the 1989-90 Blue Book).

Farewell to the Homeland, European Immigration to N.E. Wisconsin,  1840 - 1900, Brown County Historical Society, 1984.

Final Resting Place. Linda Herrick, 2000. Cemetery research.

From a Settler’s Life, A Norwegian Settlement in Sandy Bay(Carlton), translation of Tollaf Olsen, c. 1979 by Rolf Erickson. Contains Barrensen, Ellingbee,Evenson, Gathus, Gullbrandsen, Halvorsen, Hermsted, Hoverson, Johnsen, Knudsen (Kvitne), Larsen, Nickelsen, Olesen, Olsen, Pederson,

German, A Beginning Guide to German, Inverson Language Associates. Undated.

Germany, 1984, Annotated Travel Guide, New York: Fisher Travel Guides, c. 1984.Historic Preservation in WI, WHS articles

Going for the Main, James Hale (A history of Door County post offices) 1996.

Green Bay and Western, The First 111 Years. Sam Mailer. Edmonds, WA: Hundman Pub. 1989.

Green Bay and Western, The Story of, Ray and Ellen Specht, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Bulletin #115, October 1966.

Guide to Museum Computing, David K. Williams, 1987.

Guardians of the 8th Sea: A History of the US Coast Guard on the Great Lakes, T. Michael O'Brien, U.S. Coast Guard, Undated. Contains information and pictures of Kewaunee harbor.

Historic Wisconsin Buildings, Richard Perrin, 1835-1870.

History of New Franken, Wisconsin. 1851-1926, N.D. Diedrich and J.B. Gehl. (Written for the Diamond Jubilee of St. Killian’s Church.)

Indexes. Compiled by Tom Schuller.

  Architects and Their Buildings in Kewaunee County

  Ballering Bros. Shoe Factory 1881-1925

  History of Leyse Aluminum by Paul J. Mutchow

  Index to Schools in Kewaunee County 1859-1959

  Index to Cheese Factories in Kewaunee County 1875-1959

  Index to Churches in Kewaunee County 1859-1904

  Karsten Hotel

  Kewaunee Casket & Manufacturing Co. 1903-1989

  Index to Kewaunee Star, 9/23/1943-12/6/1945

  Read House Historical Notes1882-1912

  Seth Moore Limestone Works

Index to A.D. Eveland Plat Owners, 1851-1873. Compiled by Virginia Johnson.

Index to Ahnapee/Algoma Tax Rolls, 1875 – 1895. Compiled by Carl Braun and Hans Nell, 2002.

Index to Farm of the Month, Part 2, Compiled by Donna Cemyla Urban, 2003.

Index to Door County Forest Crop Land Owners, 1986.

Index to Kewaunee County 1876 and 1912 Plat Maps. Compiled by Carl Braun, 2002.

Index to Kewaunee County Court Cases, 1851-1930. Compiled by George Miller, 2003.

Index to Multi Books: George Wing, Farm of the Month, Century Farms of Kewaunee County,

Background for Historical Markers and Treasured Memories, Compiled by Donna Urban, 2003.

Index to Youngs and Steele’s Plat Owners, 1851-1873. Compiled by Virginia Johnson, 2000.

Images of America: Door county, Joseph Zurawski, 1998. (Pictorial History).

Krohn Dairy Products, 100th Anniversary – 1892-1992. A history of the cheese factory, genealogy beginning with Albert Gruetzmacher.

Lighthouses & Range Lights of Door County, Wisconsin, Peter Bosman, 2000

Legion Airs, Compiled by Frank Peat and Lee Smith. 1932. (Collection of World War l music.).

Let's Get Acquainted, 1941 - 1947, Harold Heidmann articles compiled by Ken Wolske

Luxembourg,(Europe) City Promenade, Raymond Don and Roger Lugen. This 280-page book is filled with photographs and narrative from Luxembourg, Europe.

Luxemburg Remembered, 100 Years of Luxemburg 1908-2008 Carol Simonar,2007

Luxemburg Remembered, 2008 Village of Luxemburg Centennial contains bothOld and new photos, birthdays, anniversaries and special village dates; c. 2007

Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark, American Association of Museums, 1999.

Montpelier Sesquicentenial, 1857-2007, Sesquicentennial Committee - roxanne Reckleberg and mary Reckleberg, co-chairs

Merchants, Tradesmen & Manufacturers Financial condition for Kewaunee Co.WI, 1926

Pioneer Cemeteries of Door County, Baileys Harbor, WI: Meadowland Publishers, 1981

100 Years of Kolberg Baseball, Jerry Guth, c. 1903. This 27-page book is in the Kolberg vertical file.

Railroad Car Ferries (Lake Michigan), Karl Zimmermann, NJ Andover Publications,1993.

Romance of Wisconsin place Names, Robert E. Gard and L. G. Sorden, NY: October House, Inc, 1968

Second in Command: The Uncensored Account of the Captain of the Spy Ship Pueblo, Edward Murphy, Jr. with Curt Gentry. NY:Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.

Souvenir: Farmers’ National Congress, Madison, WI, 1908.

The Centennial Gazetteer of the United States Geographical and Statistical Encyclopaedia, 1776 – 1886.

The End of the Corn Belt Fleet, Wendell W. Wilke 1972

The Czechs of Stangelville: A Brief History, Raymond Selner, 2003.

The Good Ole’ Days: The Collected Articles of Ed Westen. Edward Westen, 2000. These articleswere published in “The Belt Pulley.” (2 copies)

The Story of a Friendly Man, George F. Lounsbury. Undated. (Judge John Colonel Karel).

The Town Mutuals, Wisconsin’s Grass Roots Insurance Industry, James O’Donnell. Contains mention of Northeastern Mutual and Montpelier Mutual insurance companies.

Timlin, William, an autobiography of a WI Supreme Court Judge, compiled by Jerry Abitz, 11/2007

Trade Tokens of Wisconsin, Gerald E. Johnson, 1993.

Treasured Memories, Orwin C. Burmeister. Undated. (2 copies)

Vanishing America, Everett B. Wilson, A.S. Barnes & Co., 1961. The book contains photos and Descriptions of parts of former every-day life that are now found in museums such as a pot-Bellied stove, scarecrow and windmill.

Wild Gales and Tattered Sails, P.J. Creviere, Jr. 1997.  Shipwrecks of northwest Lake Michigan From Two Creeks and all of Green Bay.

Wisconsin Council for Local History, State Historical Society, 1996. 

Wisconsin Heritage, Bertha Kitchell Whyte, 1954.

Wisconsin Rustic Roads, 2002.

Wisconsin State Gazetteer & Business Directory; with maps 1915-1916.  

Wisconsin Steam Antique Engine Club, The Early History, Paul Reckleberg, July 2002.  

Women of the Plywood: The World War ll Years, Virginia Feld Johnson, 1998.

 

Top

BOTANICAL PRINTS

1899 Botanic Study by Annie Kacerovsky; in large manila envelope above file cabinets

Top

CEMETERIES  

Arranged by cemetery; alphabetically by surname. Maps of cemetery locations.

Algoma, Evergreens

Algoma, St. Mary’s

Clay Bank’s Cemetery (Door County), compiled by Richard Hitt, 2005.

Door County Cemetery Listings

Kewaunee, Holy Rosary

Kewaunee, Holy Rosary Cemetery Walk, 2005. Contains Bangert, Borgman, Kramer, Mach, Melera, Nowak, Poser, Riedy, Rooney, Svoboda, Wanniger

Vol. #1 pp. 1 - 313

Vol. #2 pp. 314 - 625

Vol. #3 pp. 626 – 937

Surname Index for Kewaunee County Cemetery Listings, Compiled by Donna Urban, 2003. 

Veterans, from Civil War to most recent

See also: Cemeteries on computer

Top

CENSUS

1870 Kewaunee County Census – Red River Post Office

Top

CHEESE

A History of Tonet Farmers Co.

Krohn Dairy Products, 100th Anniversary – 1892-1992. (See the Krohn vertical file.)

Milk Production Records of Joseph Ledvina, Montpelier Farmer. Includes Hillside Dairy and Ellisville Co-op.

Top

CHURCHES, Kewaunee County

Algoma Methodist Church History; Compiled by Ginny Briggs. See “Churches” in the vertical file.

History of St. Francis De Paul, Duvall (Marchand), Compiled by Andrew and Marie Grundhoeffer Engebose, 2004. 

St. John’s, Rankin

  Built on the Rock We Stand, 1867 – 1992.

  Centennial, 1867 – 1967. (2 copies)

  Diamond Jubilee, 1867 – 1942.

  Fifth Anniversary Dedication of the New Sanctuary, 1973.

Jambo Creek Norwegian Lutheran church Records, 1880-1948 from the  Ministerialbog for Gibson and Kewaunee, Norske Evang.-Lutherske Menighed.  Begyndt 1880.”  Contains Baptisms 1880- 1943, Confirmations 1881-1945,  Marriages 1883 – 1948 and Deaths 1880 – 1947.  Note: To have these records searched, please send $3.00 per surname plus an SASE.

St. Johannes Gemeinde, 1927. (In German, contains drawings and photos. 2 copies.)

St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1874 – 1999, Luxemburg; Compiled by Jerry Abitz and Carolyn Ullmann Jorgenson, 2003.

St. John’s, Luxemburg, CD of construction Photos 11/2007

St. John’s, Luxemburg, Pictorial Membership directory, 11/2007

St. John's, Luxemburg: A New Church, 2006; compiled by Jerry Abitz. Note: This book has about 100 photos of the work and facility St. Peter's Lutheran, Sturgeon Bay

1865 – 1990 St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, Town of Montpelier, (The Past 125 Years – God Building His Family), Jean Zeitler.

Vol. l, Ahnapee, Carlton, Casco, Franklin, Luxemburg, West Kewaunee.

Vol. ll.  Lincoln, Montpelier, Pierce, Red River.

Vol. lll, Algoma, Kewaunee, Village of Casco, Village of Luxemburg.

Vol. lV, Update of Kewaunee county Churches, 2008, compiled by Jerry Abitz

Note: See also: Churches of Kewaunee County notes by Steve Kander in vertical files.

Algoma Methodist Church, Cross and Flame, Dedication and Remberance, 9/17/2006; on CD.150th Worship Service, 9/17/2006; on CD.

Top

CZECH HISTORY

Border People: The Bohnisch (German-Bohemian) in America: Ken Meter and Robert Paulson, Minneapolis: Crossroads Research Center, 1993.

Czech History of Kewaunee, WI State Historical Society translated by Charles Vyskocil.

German-Bohemians, The Quiet Immigrants, LaVerne Rippley & Robert Paulson,German-Bohemian Society, New Ulm, MN, c. 1995

One Hundred Tales from Sudetenland, Translated & Edited by Karen Hobbs,  German-Bohemian Society, New Ulm, MN, c. 1999.

 

Note: See also vertical files.

Top

DECKER, EDWARD

Index to the Decker Collection at UW-Green Bay Area Archives Center

Top

DIRECTORIES

Kewaunee County Directory, 1907-1908.  (2 copies)

Kewaunee County Directory, 1916.

Kewaunee County Directory, 1944.

Note: See also collection of small directories in vertical files.

Top

FAIR

Kewaunee Co. Fair Photos, Vol. 1, 1954 – 1969. Harold Heidmann photos from Algoma Record Herald.

Kewaunee Co. Fair Photos, Vol. ll, 1970 – 1982. Harold Heidmann photos from Algoma Record Herald.

Note:  The volumes contain promotional photos of entertainers and pictures of fair-goers. Some are identified. 

Top

FISHING/FISHERIES

Fish Spawning Grounds in Wisconsin Waters of the Great Lakes, Catherine Coberly and Ross  Horrall; University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, 1980.
See also:  Coberly audio tape Interviews of Algoma fishermen Joe Schmidt and Toot Winneger. 

 

Top

KEWAUNEE, CITY OF

A City Built on a Hill, Lawerence Balleine, 1995

City of Kewaunee Grades, 1897 - 1967 (roads, fire hydrants, etc.)

Good Old Days in Kewaunee County, The “Lizzie Metzner,” (Lee W. Metzner), Thomas Schuller In “Inland Seas” magazine, Winter 2004

Kewaunee, a Harbor community – Centennial 1883-1983. Compiled by the Kewaunee Chamber of Commerce, July 1983. (3 copies)

Kewaunee, Wisconsin: Where River and Water Meet, Homecoming Celebration Souvenir booklet, 1927

Kewaunee City-Wide Homecoming of 1913, Tom Schuller

Historic Research Project; Reflections of Kewaunee; NEWCAP, Inc

Kewaunee Fire Department, 1900-2000

Kewaunee: Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles

Kewaunee, Wisconsin: We Like It Here, 1918-1968, Kewaunee Post 29 50th Anniversary

History of Swoboda Industries and Robert Petscheider, Louis Schrovnal & Joseph Svoboda, compiled by Dorothy Holub Heidmann, 2006

Top

KEWAUNEE COUNTY HISTORY

Background for Kewaunee County Historical Markers. Compiled by Kewaunee County Historical Society.

Belgian History. Series of articles by Math Tlachac. Reprinted from the Kewaunee Enterprise.

Collection of Feature Stories and Legend Rooted in Kewaunee County’s History; Compiled 1988 - 1991. Articles from Algoma Record Herald.

Century Farms of Kewaunee County, Our Heritage....Our Legacy, Compiled by Donna Urban, 1999.

Dates in Kewaunee County History. Compiled by Harold Heidmann.

Early History of Kewaunee County; Includes Decker correspondence, John Karel biography, Lee Metzner articles, George Wing histories.

Farm of the Month; articles from Tri-County Publishing. Compiled by Donna Urban.

The Father of Wisconsin 4-H: The Ransom Asa Moore Story, Marjorie L. Gleason and William E. Gleason. Battle Lake, MN: Accurate Publishing Co., 1989.

Green Book: A Guide to Resources in Kewaunee County. Published by Kewaunee County Healthier Community Council, Spring 2001.

Hamachek Mfg. – Album of product phoyos.

Historic Northeast Wisconsin, A Voyageur Guidebook; Brown Co. Historical Society.

Historical Research Project: Reflection of Kewaunee County: NEWCAP, Inc. Undated.

The History of the Belgian Settlements in Door, Kewaunee and Brown Counties, Math Tlachac, 1974.

History of Kewaunee County Cities, Villages and Towns; compilation by Kewaunee County Historical Society.

History of Luxemburg Township and Village 1855-1983, Carol J. Simonar, c. 1983.

Index to (about 400) Warranty Deeds, Quit Claim Deeds and Tax Sales in Kewaunee County between 1850’s and 1895. Compiled by Virginia Johnson, 2003.

Interesting Articles from Kewaunee County Newspapers; This indexed compilation contains mostly historical articles. 

Kewaunee County Agricultural Society: Fair Regulations and Premiums 1885 and 1901.

Kewaunee County Historical Society Minutes and Notes.

Kewaunee County Historical Society; A Chronological History, 1921 – 1999; Compiled by Ruth Wawirka.

Kewaunee County Historical Articles’ Scrapbooks

  Scrapbook #1, Dec. 5, 1968 – July 20, 1972. Indexed.

  Scrapbook #2, 1970s, Indexed.

  Scrapbook #3, 1970s, Indexed.

Kewaunee Count Banner Vital Statistics, selected marriage indexes

Kewaunee County Honor Roll and War History, World War. 1917, 1918, 1919.

Kewaunee County Lists; Includes Settlers, Town Officers, Voters, etc.

Kewaunee County Memories, Compiled by Harold H. Heidmann, 2003.2 copies.

Kewaunee County Wisconsin, Joseph Zurawski, 2000. (pictorial history)

Montpelier Township, 1857-1957 Centennial History.

Miscellaneous Compilation of Lee Metzner; some of George Wing’s correspondence included.

Northwestern Telegraph History, compiled by Wes Cox, Sr. 2008

Sesquicentennical (Wisconsin) Articles written by KCHS members for Brown Co. Historical Society and published in the Green Bay Press Gazette.

The Monument, General/Biographic History of Algoma/Kewaunee County, 1834-1934, F.M. Witts, 1934.

Municipal Code of Kewaunee, Wisconsin

A Proud Heritage, A History of Belgian Settlements,Brown, Door & Kewaunee Counties, Jerry Guth, 1995.

60 Years of Memories, Compiled by Tom Schuller. Reprints of Back, Kaye, Metzner and others.

Top

MARITIME History

Wierer, Clarence (Bearcat), One Man’s Legacy, Maritime Collection. The collection is indexed by ship, captain, other individuals and locations. Maritime history from 1837 – 1995 has been recorded from Kewaunee newspapers and entries are in chronological order.

Top

KEWAUNEE COUNTY - POLITICAL

Directory of Kewaunee County Schools1955 – 1962.

Index of Village Lots, Kewaunee County:

  Town Plat of Kewaunee

  Decker’s Addition to Village of Kewaunee

  Metzner Addition to Kewaunee

  Village of Ahnapee

  Orrin Warner’s Addition to Ahnapee

  Joseph Anderegg & Peter Schiesser Addition to Ahnapee

  Abram Eveland’s Addition to Ahnapee

  Casco Village

  South Piers, Kewaunee  

Kewaunee County Government Officials, Compiled by George Miller.

Kewaunee County Tax Rolls: Casco, Kewaunee and Luxemburg. Earliest is 1895.

Land Patent Index for Kewaunee County, Compiled by Ken Wolske.

Official Proceeding of the Board of Supervisors; intermittent from 1903-04

Relationship of Compulsory Binding Arbitration to Increases in Property Taxes for the Funding of Public School Education in Wisconsin, Lary J. Swoboda, a doctoral dissertation, UW-Madison, 1999.

Statistical Report of the Board of Supervisors; intermittent from 1938

Top

MARRIAGES

Anniversaries in the Kewaunee Enterprise, 1948-1960 & 1964, Compiled by Donna Cemyla Urban, 2004.

Index of persons married in Kewaunee Co. but listed on Door Co., WI marriages to 1907.

Kewaunee County Marriages 1873-1949 from Ahnapee Record/Algoma Record Herald, Compiled by Carl J. Braun.

Kewaunee County Marriages 1948-1960 & 1964 from the Kewaunee Enterprise, Compiled by Donna Cemyla Urban, 2004.

See also: Marriage index on the computer

Top

MICROFILM

Federal Census: 1930 Kewaunee County

Top

MUSIC

Les Wallons d’Amerique (Wisconsin), Vol. 7; Alfred Vandertie, Cletus Bellin, with Boulanger, Rouer-Bultman, Charles-Monfils, Derenne, Draize, Etienne-Feron,  Lamperuer, Chaudoir, macco, Tlachac, Massart, Renard, Wautlet, LeGrave.

Monologues Wallons dits par, Djosef A Messe, Bob DeChamps

Music in Kewaunee County, Kewaunee County Historical Society. 5 Vols.

Polka Showcase, 1978 Edition; The Wisconsin Orchestra Leaders Association.

TOP

NEWSPAPERS

Kewaunee Star, 9/23/1943-12/6/1945

Algoma Record Herald Almanac, 1921

Algoma Record Herald; index and cross-index for photographic negatives 1937 through 1987. Compiled by Harold Heidmann. Negatives are on file at Algoma Public Library and are available for enlargement and purchase.

Algoma Record Herald: index to leading articles in the Ahnapee Record/ Record Herald 1873-1950 and Luxemburg News 1909-1950.

Kewaunee Enterprise: Index of country history, articles and pictures, Compiled by Judy Srnka.

Kewaunee Enterprise Index of News Items of Interest, 1948-1960 & 1964, Compiled by Donna Cemyla Urban, 2004.

Kewaunee County Miscellaneous Newspapers; This indexed collection is miscellaneous articles from county newspapers. The index includes all proper names included in the articles. 

Milwaukee Daily Journal, 11/16/1882

Milwaukee Journal (Special edition front pages)

  Battleship Maine Blown Up, 2/16/1898

  Desert Storm, 2/15/1991

  Flying Machine, 12/16/1903

  Footprints on the Moon, 7/21/1969

  Lindberg Reaches Paris, 5/21/1927

  Kennedy Slain, 11/22/1963

  Nixon Resigns, 89/1974

  Peace, Germany Surrenders, 11/11/1918

  Pearl Harbor, 12/8/1941

  Prohibition Ends, 12/6/1933

  Storm Paralyzes, 1/30/1947

  War Ends, 8/14/1945

NOTE:  The Milwaukee special pages are in a large folio on top the large file cabinet.

TOP

NON-HISTORICAL COLLECTION

Almost Coping, Terry Auchter, 1983.

American Poetry; A.B. DeMille, 1923.

Baxter Lane Scrapbook of Famous Quips and Quotes, 1974.

Final Resting Place

Luxembourg, City Promenade. A rotogravure from Luxembourg City, Europe, 2004.

Notebook: “Doug’s Dug-Out;” undated columns from newspapers.

Notebook; undated newspaper quotes.

Notebook: undated collection of poems (2 )

Notebooks: undated quips and jokes (3).

In Grandma’s Attic, Arletta Richardson, 1974.

In One Era and Out the Other, Sam Levenson, 1944.

Irish Wit and Humor, 1902.

Little Blue book, 1191 & 1023.

People are Funny, Art Linkletter, 1960.

Warps Yuletide Greetings, 1968, 1969, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980.

Within Hollering Distance, Jane Farrell; poems, 1992.

Words to Get well By, 1968.

Year Book of Famous Quotations, Mackey Co., undated.

Top

OBITUARIES

Ahnapee Record/Algoma Record Herald 1873 - 1989.

Arranged alphabetically by surname; lists date of paper in which the obituary appears. Kewaunee Enterprise 1859-1920

Arranged alphabetically by surname; lists date of paper in which the obituary appears. Kewaunee Enterprise, 1948-1960 & 1964, Compiled by Donna Cemyla Urban, 2004.

Luxemburg 1875-1920  Arranged alphabetically by surname.

Top

ORAL HISTORIES

“Let’s Get Acquainted” Algoma Record Herald /Oral Histories:

Bruemmer, Ella

Burmeister, Orwin

Chapman, Elmer

Cherovsky, Ed

Drury, Thomas

Dupont, Mrs. Anton

Erdman, Frank 

Gaulke, Mrs. Bertha

Harmann, Ernest W.

Higgins, Alice

Jelineck, William

Karn, Jerry

Kay (Kacerovsky) Cyril

Lawerence, Herbert

LeMense, Grace

Marr, George

McKay, Beatrice Albrecht

Metzner, Lee

Novak Family

Otrodovec, William

Ouradnik, F.J.

Paape, Ed

Popelka, Miss Ella

Pribyl, Mrs. George

Schneider, Charles

Schley, Robert

Shillin, George

Walter, Mrs. Frances

Walter, Mr. Wilbert

Wiesner, Polly

Wulf, Fred

Zastrow, Fred

TOP

PHOTOGRAPH FILE (most copies are available for purchase)

City of Midland entering Kewaunee on its maiden voyage, 1941 (wall)

Algoma Street Construction and ribbon cutting photos on CD; Roger Ruhlin, 2006

Algoma Winter Photos on CD; Roger Ruhlin, 2006-2007

Harold Heidmann Algoma Record Herald Collection; photos taken by Mr. Heidmann between 1937 and ca. 1980

Kewaunee County Historical Society Photo Albums

Edgar “Tiny” Nell, photos and slides taken between 1937 and the mids-1980s. Algoma area and Youth Club.

  See also: Cross-index to Record Herald photos.

  See also:  Hamachek Album of Products (photos)

Top

SCHOOLS

Door-Kewaunee County College History and Students

Feed My Lambs, 1881 – 1981; St. Paul’s Lutheran School Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary.

History of Alaska Jt.1, 1867 - 1949; Compiled by Alaska residents.

Kewaunee High School 1940-1944, a scrapbook collection compiled by June Blahnik.

One-Room Country Schools, Jerry Apps, Amherst Press, 1996. History and recollections from Wisconsin schools.

One-Room School Days, An Autobiography of Life as a Pupil, Teacher, Teacher-Trainer in a One-Room School; Otto J. Shipla (Door-Kewaunee County College), 1995.

School Daze: Algoma High School student newspaper editions from the 1950s.

School Histories from 1949 Kewaunee Enterprise

Rural

Vol. 1: Towns of Ahnapee, Carlton, and Casco

  **History of Kodan School in the Norman Paul history/genealogy.

Vol. 2: Towns of Franklin, Lincoln, and Luxemburg

Vol. 3: Towns of Montpelier, Pierce, Red River

Vol. 4: Town of West Kewaunee

General Information

City and Village

Vol. 5: Algoma, Kewaunee, Luxemburg-Casco

Algoma High School, 1952 – 1960. Contains School Daze, senior pictures and clippings.

Badger Girls State, 1958. 2 Vol. Girls’ manual and Wisconsin Government.

Door Kewaunee Normal/County Teachers College

History of Alaska School by Lillian Pechman.

History of LaFollette by Lillian Pechman. 

St. Mary’s Grade School, Algoma: List of Graduates from 1901; Compiled by George F. Miller. File is with St. Mary’s Church under “Churches” in the vertical files.

Remembering 100 Years of Teaching and Learning: Kewaunee County, 1860s - 1966.

Ahnapee District #1, Class Book of Scholarship and Deportment, ca. 1865

Perry St. Bridge Construction in 1957, Algoma; photos by Bev Diefenbach.

Carlton School District Library Records, 1891

Composition Books from 1906 and 1908 containing the surnames Barbeaux, Peltier, Scofield and DeWarzeggers. Could be from the Tn.of Gardner in Door Co.)

West Kewaunee School District #1, Teacher’s Daily Record, 1892-1894

West Kewaunee School district #1, School and Township Record Book.

Woodland School: History of a One Room School, 1892-1965, Compiled by Tracey Konop.

The Kewaunatolian, A Kewaunee High School Newspaper

Dec. 16, 1024

Mar. 24, 1925

Oct. 20, 1925

Dec. 8, 1925

Feb. 9, 1925

Mar. 24, 1926

May 11, 1926

Oct. 20, 1926

Dec. 14, 1926

Feb. 14, 1927

Oct. 25, 1927

Dec. 12, 1927

Jan. 30, 1928

Mar. 13, 1928

April 30, 1928

Oct. 22, 1928

Dec. 10, 1928

Mar. 25, 1929

May 6, 1929

June 3, 1929

Oct. 7, 1929

Nov. 4, 1929

Dec. 16, 1929

Jan. 27, 1930

Mar. 3, 1930

April 14, 1930

May 12, 1930

June 13, 1930

Oct. 6, 1930

Nov. 10, 1930

Dec. 15, 1930

Dec. 21, 1930

Feb. 2, 1931

June 10, 1932

 

Top

School Books

Atlas of Wisconsin & the World, 1904; contains a 1904 WI map that includes the  Hamlets of Kewaunee Co. 

Note-Reading is Fun, Carl W. Vandre, NY 1949; Music program for rural schools

Row, Peterson and Co. reading text books, the series favored by Kewaunee County and used in the rural schools.

Day In and Day Out

Down the River Road

Engine Wheels  and Singing Whistles

Friendly Village 

Runaway Home

School Records

Building Contract, Tn. of Ahnapee; 1876 school. See Algoma Public Schools in the vertical file.

Daily Register, Tn. of Ahnapee, District #3, 1869 - 1871.

Daily Register, Tn. of Ahnapee, District #3, 1886 - 1887.

Daily Register, Tn. of Ahnapee, District #3, 1891 - 1892.

Daily Register, St. Paul’s Lutheran School, Algoma, Sept. 1957 - June 1958.

Daily Register, St. Paul’s Lutheran School, Algoma, Sept. 1964 - June 1965.

Daily Register, Tn. of West Kewaunee, Krok District #2, 1922 - 1924 (also contains Annual Report)

Daily Register, Tn. of West Kewaunee, District #2, 1891 - 1892

McNally’s System of Geography, ca. 1866; has the signatures of Ahnapee’s   George Warner, 4/30/1883 and Maud Wilbur, undated 

Record of Annual Meetings, Tn. of Ahnapee, District #3

Record of Annual School Meetings, Tn. of West Kewaunee, 1882 - 1890 (contains school census records)

Record of Attendance, Tn. of Ahnapee, District #3, 1905 - 1915

Register, Tn. of Ahnapee, District #4, 1859

Register, Tn. of Ahnapee, District #4, 1869 - 1882

Register, 1897. (District is not noted. Otto Bruemmer appears to have been the teacher. A number of Blahniks are listed; the register could have come from Kodan.)

Register, Tn. of Carlton, East Twin River School, 1900, 1940, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1951, and 1953.

School Registers, Clerk’s books, etc. Whittier School, 1858 – 1960.

Treasurer’s Book, Tn. of Kewaunee, 1868 - 1954 (District #6 and Jt. #3)

Treasurer’s Books, East Twin River School, 1939 – 1964.

Wisconsin School of the Air Radio Programs; Journey in Music Land, Prof. Gordon, 1948-1949 and 1949-1950.

TOP

SHIPS

Of Ships and Men: The Writings of Lee Metzner and “Kewaunee Jim” Smit., Compiled by Thomas Schuller.

Ships of Our Ancestors, Michael J. Anuta; INDEX ONLY. Lists 900 photos available for Immigrant ships.

Ships and Shipwrecks in Door County Wisconsin; Arthur & Lucy Frederickson, 1961.

See also:  P.J. Creviere, Jr. Wild Gales and Tattered Sails. Shipwrecks in Lake Michigan and Green Bay from Two Creeks north.

See also: Fred Neuschel vertical file.

See also: Bearcat Wierer scrapbook collection

Top

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (miscellaneous)

Central European Times (was called Vienna Times) Mar 15, 1931
    Carpatho-Russia, history
    Czech Land Reform
    Graz and Styria
    Kingdom of Bulgaria, history
    Kingdom of Hungary, history of 1100 years
    Kingdom of Yugoslavia, history
    Moravia-Selesia, history
    Republic of Austria, history
    Republic of Czechlosvakia, history
    Republic of Poland, history
    Sarajevo, history
    Zagreb, Ancient and Modern

Hlasatel Kalendar. Czech calendar entirely in Czech/Bohemian. Published in Chicago.

  Issues from the 1940’s and ‘50’s. Newspapers and church calendars in the Czech vertical File.

Kewaunee County articles in 2 scrapbooks, compiled by Leon and Kathy Kielpikowski. Covers 1930s and early 1940s.

Kewaunee county Historical Society scrapbook collection in 3 vols. 1972-1976;   contains press releases about society activity and general county history 

Luxemburg Collection in six scrapbooks containing birth, marriage and death newspaper articles;

Rose (Mrs. Emil) Lohrey Collection. Covers the 1950s into the 1980s.

Luxemburg Collection in 30 scrapbooks containing birth, death, marriage, school, historical and other newspaper articles;
Mrs. Verna Heim. Covers the 1950’s to the 1990’s.

Maps: Ahnapee/Algoma Plat Maps; George Miller Collection in vertical files.

Memories; 4 loose-leaf volumes of undated articles and pictures of people.

100 Years of Progress; 4 loose-leaf volumes of articles from the Press Gazette.

Photographs (hanging)

     Simon Hall, ca. 1880

     Ahnapee, 1880

     Algoma Record Herald Plaque

     Desiah Smith Hall, ca. 1880

     Kewaunee, 1890

     Kewaunee County Jail Museum

     Kewaunee, City Plat

Postcards (old); also contains some pictures of pre-1950 Algoma from the Eileen Slaby Collection.

Southern Kewaunee County scrapbook collection, compiled by Mrs. Elizabeth Kostka. Covers the1930s to 1960s.

U.S. Plywood Champion Papers, Inc. collection of articles from 1892-1967.

Valentines (old) – Clarence Skala collection.

Wierer, Clarence “Bearcat” scrapbook collection: Pictures of boats, harbors, lighthouses, fishing, etc. in 7 scrapbooks. The collection is indexed but most articles are undated.

WI State Historical Society; WI counties’ genealogical searches and information.

TOP

VIDEOS  And DVDs

Algoma, 1938.

Algoma, 1952

Algoma Class of 1964 Reunion

Algoma style Show, 2003

Belgian Ethnic Tour of Door and Kewaunee Counties, Narrated by Jerry Guth, 1995

Collegiate School Reunion, 8/18/02.

Door County, Traditions of a Rugged Pioneer Past; undated video

Evergreen Cemetery Walk, June 2001.

Great Lakes Ports of Call - Kewaunee, 2002.

Green Bay and Western Boat Train.

The Home Front 1940-1945 (a look at the World War ll years; this is not a military history) Kewaunee, 1938.

Kewaunee County Historical Society, Evergreen Cemetery Walk, 2001.

Kewaunee County Historical Society, Riverview Cemetery Walk, 2002.

Kewaunee Fog Horn and Interview with Aggie the Ghost

Luxemburg Remembered, 100 Years; centennial DVD, c. 2007

Luxemburg Anniversary Photos, 2008, including Anniversary, Century, Jacques, Legois, Luxemburg and Simonar collections

Recalling the Past with Emil and Bill Pagel at the Pagel Fish Shanty. 6/2006. Audrey Krautkramer interview.

Recalling the Past with Emil and Bill Pagel, 6/2006. Audrey Krautkramer interview in the shanty.

Recalling the Past with Dr. Leona Zastrow, 6/2--6. A.K. interview

Recalling the Past with Doug Zillmer, July 2007. Audrey Krautkramer Interview

Recalling the Past with Kathleen Zastrow. 6/2006. Audrey Krautkramer interview.

Reliving the Past with Jerry Abitz: George Miller interview, March 2002.

Reliving the Past with Algoma Sports: Audrey Krautkramer interview, September 2004.

Reliving the Past with Richard Bosdech: George Miller interview, May 2002.

Reliving the Past with Richard Cemyla: George Miller interview, April 2002.

Reliving the Past with Gertrude Rivers Cornell: Audrey Krautkramer interview, May 2005.

Reliving the Past with Tony DeGuelle: George Miller interview, August 2002.

Reliving the Past with Gilbert DeMuese: George Miller interview, July 2002.

Reliving the Past with Carrie Dettman: George Miller interview, July 2002.

Reliving the Past with Jim Evans: George Miller interview, June 2002.

Reliving the Past with Art Fiala: Audrey Krautkramer interview, January 2005.

Reliving the Past with Ray Fulwiler: George Miller interview, June 2002.

Reliving the Past with Alan Groessl: Audrey Krautkramer interview, February 2006.

This interview is about Big Boy, a World War l biography by Mr. Groessl’s uncle Quiren Groessl.

Reliving the Past with Gerald Guth: George Miller interview, May 2002.

Reliving the Past with Dorothy Holub Heidmann: George Miller interview, April 2002.

Reliving the Past with Mark Hoppe: George Miller interview, August 2002.

Reliving the Past with Art Helen Horak: Audrey Krautkramer interview, January 2005.

Reliving the Past with Lt. Col. Fran Junio: Audrey Krautkramer interview, January 2005.

Reliving the Past with Mary Kersten: Audrey Krautkramer interview, November 2004. Includes the History of Katch’s store.

Reliving the Past with Reinhart Krause: George Miller interview, June 2002.

Reliving the Past with Earl Krueger: George Miller interview, August 2002.

Reliving the Past with Bernice Knospe: George Miller interview, August 2002.

Reliving the Past with Lorraine Kohlbeck: George Miller interview, August 2002.

Reliving the past with Roy Koss: George Miller interview, July 2002.

Reliving the Past with Dorothy LaPlante: George Miller interview, August 2002.

Reliving the past with Darwin Legois: George Miller interview, July 2002.

Reliving the Past with Maynard Lufter: George Miller interview, July 2002.

Reliving the Past with Chester Majweski: George Miller interview, July 2002.

Reliving the Past with Leon Meyer: George Miller interview, July 2002.

Reliving the Past with George Miller: Rev. Bill Kuhr interview, April 2004. #1 & #2.

Reliving the Past with Dr. Reynold Neseman: George Miller interview, March 2002.

Reliving the Past with Joe Novak: George Miller interview, June 2002.

Reliving the Past with Emil Pagel: George Miller interview, July 2002.

Reliving the Past with Joe Raisleger: George Miller interview, March 2002.

Reliving the Past with Ray Selner: Audrey Krautkramer interview, November 2005.

Reliving the Past with Lary Swoboda: George Miller interview, June 2002.

Reliving the Past with Arlene Thomas: George Miller interview, June 2002.

Reliving the Past with Eben Vandeveld: George Miller interview, April 2002.

Reliving the Past with Paul Wolske: George Miller interview, August 2002.

Reliving the Past with Maynard Zima: George Miller interview, April 2002.

Reliving the Past with Virginia Feld Johnson, Hans Nell & Ken Wolske, August 2007. Audrey Krautkramer Interview

Reliving the Past with Virginia Kostka: Audrey Krautkramer interview, October 2008

Riverview Cemetery Walk (Kewaunee) 2002.

St. Mary’s Cemetery Walk (Algoma) 2003.

St. Mary’s Cemetery Walk (Luxemburg) 2004.

Streets of Algoma 1976-1980 (a humorous look at Algoma)

Toilet Bowl Games 1971-1981 (football games held the day after Thanksgiving in Algoma) 

Topp, Marvalyn; “Anna, Friend of Mathias;” KCHS spring speaker.

Wagons of Wisconsin, VHS taping by Fred Ebert, editong and reformatting to DVD, Tom Duescher, 2008

1938 City of Algoma.

1938 City of Kewaunee.

1938 Village of Luxemburg.

1949 Algoma High School Basketball Team: Audrey Krautkramer interview.

1951 Algoma High School Basketball Team.

1952 City of Algoma.

2005 Governor’s Award for Archival Achievement; presentation to KCHS by WHS Archivist Peter Gottlieb, October 28, 2005.

Recalling the past with J. Alan Groessl

Recalling the Past with Martin Heuer

An Interview with Nellis P. DeBaker at Appleton High School, Jan 26, 2007

Super Bowl 1

Winter in Algoma, 2007; Roger Ruhlin photos

 

Top

WAR

14th Wisconsin, Corinth & Shiloh, 1862-1865. Source unknown.

“Big Boy”: A Diary of World War l, Quiren M. Groessl, 1966. See Also: Interview with Alan Groessl, 2/2006.

Civil War Handbook, William H. Price. Fairfax, Va: L.B. Prince Co., 1962.

Day Book of War Mothers of America, 1918 - 1919; list of members and correspondence from World War l.

"From Ahnapee to the Sea" - Tom C. Anderson, undated Civil War history of the WI 14th, Co. E.

Grand Army of the Republic: Department of Wisconsin, Thomas J. McCrory, Madison:  Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation, 2005.

Kewaunee County Honor Roll and War History, World War 1917-1918-1919.

Letters to Lanah, A Civil War Soldier Writes Home, Compiled by Clarence M. Swimm, Jr., 1986.

List of  Kewaunee County World War ll servicemen is found in the 1947 Kewaunee County Plat Book, which can be found under “Maps” in the vertical files.

The 32nd Division in the World War 1917 – 1919, Issued by the Joint War Commission History of Michigan and Wisconsin, 1920.

The Mushroom Picker, Patrick DeWane, 9/14/2007 at St. Lawrence Church,  Stangelville; Mr. DeWane tells about his grandfather Lt. Col. Matt (Mathias)  Konop and World War ll.

Wisconsin in the Civil War, Robert Wells, Milwaukee: The Milwaukee Journal, 1964.

Kewaunee County Men Who registered for World War 1 in 1917

Kewaunee County Inductees, 1950 - 1959, Includes Pictures and ID's

World War ll: A Timeline of Pictures, Compiled by Hannah Bluett and Elizabeth Dier, 2004. Contains biographies of Clarence Anderson, Frederick J. Barnes, Cletus J. Conrad, Lawrence Conrad, Richard Kolstad, Ted Holsbach, Brian Kostichka, James Meyers, Lee Piechocki, Lloyd Pinchart, Eward Sticka, Fred Waterstreet, Joseph Walag, Eugene Younk & Harold Zeitler.
Note: The veterans represent World War ll and other wars

Top

GEORGE WING

Newspaper articles from Kewaunee Press; reprinted 1921-1923.

One Man’s Memories, compiled by Donna Urban.

Pioneer Stories of Kewaunee County, 1843-1863. (2 copies)

Wing, George, Computer file. On 4 disks - Microsoft Word

Wolf River Reminiscences

Top

WISCONSIN HISTORY

Around the Shores of Lake Michigan: A Guide to the Badger State, Margaret B. Bogue. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Brevet’s Wisconsin Historical Markers and Sites; N.Jane Hunt, Ed. Sioux Falls, SD: Brevet Press, 1974.

Collection of the State Historical Society, Lyman Copeland Draper, LLD. Madison: Published by The Society. 1903.

  Vol. l

  Vol. ll

  Vol. V

  Vol. Vlll

  Vol. XlX

Fire Within: A Civil War Narrative From Wisconsin, Kelly A. Trask. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995.

Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory, Kate McCready, Ed. Milwaukee: Marquette University, 1997, 1998, 1999.

Old Forts and Real Folks, Susan Burdick Davis. Madison: Zoe Bayliss and Susan Davis Publishers, 1959.

Opinions of the Attorney General of Wisconsin 1927, Vol. XVl, 1/1/1927 – 12/31/1927. John W. Reynolds, Attorney General. Madison, Wisconsin 1927.

Reading Wisconsin’s Landscape, State Department of Public Instruction, Madison, WI 1962.

Stories of the Badger State, Rueben Gold Thwaites, ca. 1900.

Veterans Affairs in Wisconsin, 1987.

Yearbook of Agriculture, 1981,1982, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992.

Voyageur, Historical Review of Brown County and Northeast Wisconsin, Heritage Festival Commemorative Issue, Spring 1984.

The Wisconsin Story: The Building of a Vanguard State, Russell Austin. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Journal Publishers, 1957.

Wisconsin, A Guide to the Badger State, Compiled by Workers of the Writer’s Project of The Works Project Administration, 1941.

Wisconsin: A Story of Progress, Wm. Francis Raney, PhD. Appleton, WI: Perin Press, 1963.

Wisconsin Folklife: A Celebration of Wisconsin Traditions, Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Sponsors:  Madison: Times Printing Co. 1998.

Wisconsin Historical Society Proceeding, 1914.

Wisconsin Indians, Nancy Oestrich Laurie. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin,1980.

Wisconsin Lore, Robert Gard & L.G. Sorden. New York: Duell, Sloan, Pease, 1962.

Wisconsin Trails, 150 Years of Statehood, 1848-1998.

Wisconsin Travel Companion, Richard Olsenius and Judy A. Zerby. Wayzata, MN: Bluestone Productions, 1983.

Wisconsin’s Amazing Woods Then and Now.

Wisconsin’s Past and Present: A Historical Atlas, University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

TOP

AUDIO TAPES      Rev. 11/27/03

Arpin, Mrs. Alvah: Kewaunee County Fair.

Aude, Gerhard: World War l and Mail Service.   

Bargman, Herb: Farming, Tape 1.

Bargman, Herb: Farming, Tape 2.

Berg, Oscar; Ahnapee Township.

Blazei, Joe; Stangelville area and historical background of Franklin Township; Side 1.

Dufek, Charles: Indian Stories and Franklin Town, Side 2.

Bruemmer, Ella; Bruemmerville in Ahnapee Township.

Bruening, William; Pierce area; Side 1. 

Dr. Kerscher; Lincoln area; Side 2.

Burmeister, Mrs. Julie (Schultz) and Ed Schultz.

Burmeister, Orwin: Tape 1.

Burmeister, Orwin: Tape 2.

Cherovsky, Ed: Tape 1 (missing).

Cherovsky, Ed: Tape 2.

Dorner, Joseph, Sr.: Luxenburg/Neuren.

Dupont, Mrs. Anton: Tape 1.

Dupont, Mrs. Anton: Tape 2. (missing).

Erdman, Frank: Algoma mailman.

Evans, Mrs. Ruth and Mrs. Eunice Lawson: Algoma sisters, daughters   of Capt. William Henry, Jr.

Fiala, Art: World War l.

Foshion, Mrs. Pearl:, Algoma historian and “doll doctor,” speaks on Algoma, school teaching, conditions during World War l, doctors; Tape 1.

Mrs. Foshion continued on the back of Cliff Wenniger, Side 2. 

Gaulke, Bertha: Rio Creek.

Gregor, George: Luxemburg high school principal; his life. March 1975

Hoppe, Mrs. Emil and Mrs. Flora Ledvina: Luxemburg.

Hoverson, Paul Sr.: Franklin Township, 1958.

Jelinek, Jerry; roads of Kewaunee County, Side 1   

Dewey Sanderson; on sugar beets of Kewaunee County, Side 2.

Jelinek, Mr. And Mrs. W., also Jerry and Jenny Jelinek: Early Days Rural Kewaunee Co. 1/1973.      

Dufek, Charles; on Franklin Township and Indian Stories; Side 2.

 (a)  Jerebek, Neil: Alaska, Tape 1.

Jerebek, Neil: Alaska, Tape 2.

Kacerovksy (Kay) Ceril: Tape 1 (No subject).

Kacerovsky (Kay) Ceril: Tape 2 (No subject)

Kacerovsky (Kay) Ceril: Tape 3 (No subject)

Kehlliher, Tom: Former Kewaunee Mayor.

Kewaunee Trout Festival Parade, 1975.

Kratz, Mrs. Ed & Mrs. John Weisner

Martin, Ed, Peter & Irene (Simonar): Luxemburg

McKay, Mrs. Beatrice Albrecht: daughter of John Albrecht of Kewaunee Mfg. Co. Tape 1.

McKay, Mrs. Beatrice: Tape 2,  Side 1.

Dupont, Mrs. Anton (Laura Hoebrecy); speaks of Sister Adele Brice of Robinsonville, Tonet and Red River. Mrs. Helen Brahme and Mrs. Rita Dayome, nieces of Mrs. Dupont, are heard.

Mrs. Dupont continued; Tape 2.

Meeting of March 31, 1987, Chair Richard Clapper; Advisory Council.

Meeting of May 7, 1987, Monument and War Memorial.

Metzner, Lee; Touring Kewaunee County; Tape 1. 

Metzner, Lee; Touring Kewaunee County; Tape 2.

Metzner, Lee; Touring Kewaunee County; Tape 3.

Metzner, Lee; Boyhood Memories of a Casco Banker, Tape 1. 

Metzner, Lee: Boyhood Memories of a Casco Banker, Tape.2. 

Metzner, Lee: Early Carlton Township; Tape 3.

Metzner, Lee: Civil War, Tape 4.

Metzner, Lee: Untitled, Tape 5.

Metzner, Lee: Untitled, Tape 6.

Metzner, Lee: Luxemburg and Duvall, Metzner Tape 7, Side 1

Meverdan, William and Rudy Batke: Algoma railroad employees, Side 2.

Metzner, Mrs. Lee (Esther): Untitled.

Meverdan, William and Rudy Badtke: Railroad.

Otradovec, William, Sr.: Carlton.

Pawlitzke, Mrs. Rudloph: A Bohemian Housewife in Carlton.

Peters, Harold and Laura, July 8, 1985.

Popelka, Ella; Life in Kewaunee; Tape 1.

Popelka, Ella; Life in Kewaunee; Tape 2.

Popelka, Ella; Life in Kewaunee; Tape 3.

Popelka, Ella; Life in Kewaunee; Tape 4.

Popelka, Ella; Life in Kewaunee; Tape 5.

Popelka, Ella; Bohemian Family Life; Tape 6

Pilgrim, Edward; A Kewaunee teacher’s memories of 1910-1915 Kewaunee.

Pribyl, George: February 1993 with Jim Linak and J. Sinkula. Worchek, Henry, January 1993.

Pribyl,  Mrs. George (Tillie), Mrs. Orin Olsen, Mrs. Joseph Johanek, Mrs. Earl Bruemmer: Tisch Mills in the early days. Spring 1972, Tape 1.

Pribyl, Mrs. George (Tillie), Mrs. Orin Olson, Mrs. Joseph Johanek 

Mrs. Earl Bruemmer: Tisch Mills in the early days. Spring 1972, Tape 2.

Rabas, Millie.

Rank, Tom: Baker, 1980.

Reinhardy, Dr. Art and Dorothy: Untitled, Tape 1.

Reinhardy, Dr. Art and Dorothy: Untitled, Tape 2.

Reinhart, Sister Mary: Carlton pioneer life.

Rinehart, Sister Mary continued and Ed Cherovsky on Carlton.

Richards, George: History of Kewaunee. Tape 1.

Richards, George: History of Kewaunee. Tape 2.

Richards, George; Kewaunee County History; Tape 1.

Richards, George: Kewaunee County History; Tape 2.

Salentine, Mrs. Mary: Luxemburg.

Schlies, Mrs. Frank (Tillie Stangel):of Stangelville on Kewaunee County.

Schneider, Charles; Publisher of the Kewaunee Star; Life in Kewaunee from 1910 – 1930; Tape 1.

Schneider, Charles; Tape 2.

Sevcik, Mrs. John: Luxemburg.

Stangel, Julius: Farmer, Bank Director, and Assemblyman.

Sullivan, Julia: Kewaunee.

Ullman, Ed: Luxemburg.

Ullsperger, Sylvester:  His life.

Ullsperger, Sylvester:  His life. World War ll Navy search and rescue pilot.

Vandervest, Josie: Dyckesville.

Walters, Mr.Wilber: Rio Creek, Side 1. 

Mrs. Wilber Walters:  Rio Creek, Side 2. 

Waterstreet, Ed: World War l and Teaching.

Wenniger, Cliff: Algoma fisherman.

Wenniger, Cliff: Algoma fisherman. Pearl Foshion, Side 2.

Wessely (Vessely), Matt: Interviewed by Jerry Abitz, 1993.

 Schmidt, Joe and Toot Winneger: Algoma fishermen; Catherine Coberly-SeaGrant interview.

 Mueller, Mert, “The Penquin”; “Big Band Ballroom Memories.” 

 Mueller, Mert, “The Penquin”; “It’s Polka/Waltz Time!”

NOTE: For printouts of some of the above tapes, see vertical files - Interviews/Audio Tapes.

TOP

TOP

KEWAUNEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PICTURE FILE  Rev. 2/5/05

The picturing numbering system is as follows. P is followed by two numbers, indicating the year of acquisition, i.e. P00 indicates a photo acquired in 2000 while P90 indicates 1990, etc. The second group of three numbers, those below, indicates a locality. The last three numbers indicate the order of acquisition within the year. For example P98-300-015 indicates a photograph acquired in 1998, of something in the town of Ahnapee and the 15th photo acquired that year.

Ahnapee Town 300

Alaska 372

Algoma Buildings150

Algoma Churches154

Algoma Dug-Out 153

Algoma Harbor and Piers 160

Algoma Miscellaneous 159

Algoma Parades 176

Algoma People 170

Algoma Railroad 190

Algoma, Rabas Collection 171

Algoma Scenes 180

Algoma Schools 156

Algoma Sports 174

Carlton 310

Casco Buildings 200

Casco People 220

Casco Railroad

Casco Scenes 230

Casco Town 320

Corp of Engineers 117

Ellisville 362

Franklin Town 330

Goodrich Steamers

Kewaunee Buildings 100

Kewaunee Buildings, Miscellaneous 109

Kewaunee Business Interiors 101

Kewaunee Car Ferries 115

Kewaunee Church Furniture Business 135

Kewaunee County Court House 106

Kewaunee County Fires 110

Kewaunee County Churches 108

Kewaunee County Officials 500

Kewaunee County Museum 600

Kewaunee Harbor 121

Kewaunee Homes 104

Kewaunee Ice Storm 105

Kewaunee Lakefront & Piers 123

Kewaunee Miscellaneous 450

Kewaunee People, Groups 126

Kewaunee People, Individual 125

Kewaunee People, Organizations 127

Kewaunee Railroads 148

Kewaunee River Scenes 396

Kewaunee Scenes 140

Kewaunee Schools 112

Kewaunee Shipbuilding 136

Kewaunee Shipyards

Kewaunee Sports 129

Kewaunee Veterans 130

Krok 394

Lincoln Town 340

Luxemburg Buildings 250

Luxemburg Churches & Schools 256

Luxemburg Town 350

Luxemburg Veterans 270

Luxemburg People 270

Mach Collection (West Kewaunee Tn.) 134

Metzner Collection (Casco) 128

Montpelier Town 360

More Kewaunee Scenes 140

Musicians 700

Other Marine Vessels 119

Perry Collection (Family) 191

Pierce Town 370

Pilsen 364

Red River Town 380

Rosiere 345

Scarboro 356

Schmidt Collection (Algoma) 192

Selner Collection (Franklin Tn.) 131

Slovan 328

Stangleville 336

Tisch Mills 316

West Kewaunee 390

TOP

Taxes

Tax Roll of the town of Carlton, 1895-1902