Sunday Open House Event
2024-11-03 12:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-01 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | River Bluffs History Center, W6321 E. Main St, Bay City, WI, 54723, United States
Come visit to research, view our local history displays, donate an item, and tour our 1850’s log cabin and learn about the family that built it.

Rock Elm Old Settler's Club - Annual Meeting
2024-11-07 12:00 - 15:00 | Rock Elm Methodist Church
Join us at noon for the traditional meal of chicken pot pie, followed by a short business meeting, and then a presentation by Dr. William S. Cordua on the Rock Elm Meteor.

Title: The Rock Elm Meteor Impact Structure: Discovery and Geology

The Rock Elm area is the site of 450 million year old impact crater that later filled with sediment and has now been partly exposed by erosion. This talk goes through, in layman’s terms, how the feature was recognized and verified, producing the unique features of the area’s landscape.

Dr. Bill Cordua is a retired professor from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls where he taught geology for 40 years. He has written over 100 articles for the general public on geology. Dr. Cordua is in the education division of the Rockhound and Lapidary Hall of Fame and has received the Katherine Greacen Nelson Award honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to the earth sciences in Wisconsin.

History Club, Plum City Public Library
2024-11-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Plum City Public Library, 611 Main Street, Plum City, WI, 54761, United States
Join us at the Plum City Public Library for History Club. Bring a story or item for Show & Tell and chat & reminisce with local history lovers.

Coffee & Conversation, Memory Cafe
2024-12-05 13:30 - 15:00 | Elmwood History Center, 110 S. Main Street, Elmwood, WI, 54740, United States
Join us for coffee and conversation at the History Center in Elmwood, along with some local history.

Coffee & Conversation
2025-07-03 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-10-03 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-11-06 13:30 - 15:00 | Elmwood History Center, 110 S. Main Street, Elmwood, WI, 54740, United States
Partnered with the ADRC and Staying Put

1st Sunday Open House
2025-07-06 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-03 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-07 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-05 12:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-02 12:00 - 16:00 | River Bluffs History Center, W6321 E. Main St, Bay City, WI, 54723, United States
Come view our displays, explore out 1850’s log cabin, do research, donate a photo or item, or just visit.

History Club - Plum City
2025-07-09 10:30 - 12:00 | Plum City Public Library, 611 Main Street, Plum City, WI, 54761, United States

Speaker Series - Prescott
2025-07-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Prescott History Center, 235 Broad Street, Prescott, WI, 54021, United States
Robert Taunt Presents: Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot – George Byron Merrick

Speaker Series - Prescott
2025-07-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Prescott History Center, 235 Broad Street, Prescott, WI, 54021, United States
Kelly Johnson & Jean Halverson, Presents: Their Book, “Grandma & Grandpa’s Great Loop Adventure”

UFO Days - Special Hours
2025-07-25 10:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-26 10:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-27 10:00 - 18:00 | Elmwood History Center, 110 S. Main Street, Elmwood, WI, 54740, United States
Our Elmwood History Center will be open Friday-Sunday during Elmwood’s UFO Days.
Debut of the new book, the reprint of Lavern Flanders’ book on Rock Elm History. Come purchase your copy!

Displays:

UFO Days in the News
Pierce County in the Military
Fred Johnson

Freier Schoolhouse - Pierce County Fair
2025-08-07 10:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-08 10:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-09 10:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-10 10:00 - 15:00 | Freier School, Pierce County Fairgrounds, 364 N. Maple St, Ellsworth, WI, 54011, United States

Coffee & Conversation
2025-08-07 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-09-04 13:30 - 15:00 | Elmwood History Center, 110 S. Main Street, Elmwood, WI, 54740, United States
Partnership with ADRC and Staying Put

1st Sunday Open House
2025-08-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Prescott History Center, 235 Broad Street, Prescott, WI, 54021, United States
Dallas Eggers Presents: Steamboats Comin’, A History of Steamboats

History Club - Plum City
2025-09-10 10:30 - 12:00 | Plum City Public Library, 611 Main Street, Plum City, WI, 54761, United States
Show & Tell event

Learner Series: Findagrave for Beginners
2025-09-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Elmwood History Center, 110 S. Main Street, Elmwood, WI, 54740, United States
Findagrave for Beginners: Demo/Training/Workshop, learn basics of Findagrave, what you can learn using it and how to conduct searches with the best results. Bring a person or line of your tree to look up and we will use them as examples.
Trainer: Julie Huebel
About Our Learner Series: A regular series of events consisting of speakers, training sessions, and workshops to be coordinated by the PCHA. These events will be held at the History Center in Elmwood from 4-5pm, on the 3rd Thursday of the month. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop or tablet to access online resources and to bring examples for relevant sessions to be used as examples in the training.

Learner Series: Findagrave for Advanced Users
2025-10-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Elmwood History Center, 110 S. Main Street, Elmwood, WI, 54740, United States
Findagrave for Advanced Users: Demo/Training/Workshop, learn to submit edit suggestions, upload photos, link relatives, create virtual cemetery. This session builds on basics learned in the previous training or for people that already use the site for searching. Bring a person or line of your tree to upload photos, link relatives, edit existing details and we will use them as examples.
Trainer: Jayne Hoffman
About Our Learner Series: A regular series of events consisting of speakers, training sessions, and workshops to be coordinated by the PCHA. These events will be held at the History Center in Elmwood from 4-5pm, on the 3rd Thursday of the month. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop or tablet to access online resources and to bring examples for relevant sessions to be used as examples in the training.

Learner Series: Plat Map/Atlas as a Resource
2025-11-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Elmwood History Center, 110 S. Main Street, Elmwood, WI, 54740, United States
Plat Map/Atlas as a Resource: Demo/Training/Workshop, learn how to read a plat map, how to decipher land descriptions, and discover what years are available for Pierce County and where to find them.
Trainer: Julie Huebel
About Our Learner Series: A regular series of events consisting of speakers, training sessions, and workshops to be coordinated by the PCHA. These events will be held at the History Center in Elmwood from 4-5pm, on the 3rd Thursday of the month. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop or tablet to access online resources and to bring examples for relevant sessions to be used as examples in the training.
