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Re-Mastered Book on Rock Elm Township’s History, Available for Sale
We are very excited to announce a reprint of Lavern Flanders’ book on the history of Rock Elm Township! The book has been completely remastered by a team of our volunteers, text retyped, photos rescanned, index created, along with some minor updates in instances where we have access to information that wasn’t known at the…
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Camp Ellsworth, Civilian Conservation Corps.
Ten acres of land was rented from Fremont Maynard for Camp Ellsworth, located just north of the village of Ellsworth on the northeast corner of Highway 65 and 580th Avenue. On September 2nd, 1935, fourteen railroad cars arrived from Mississippi with the camp buildings, all in pre-built sections. Camp Ellsworth was opened in November of…
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New Office in Elmwood!
BIG NEWS!! We have signed a lease for a building in Elmwood at 110 S. Main Street that started August 1, 2023. We will be opening this as a satellite office to our main one in Bay City. We feel this will allow us to better serve the community in terms of proximity to their…
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Pierce County Historian Publishes Book at Age 92
Seventy-three years after publishing her first historical book, Prescott, Past and Present, at age 19; Mary Beeler is publishing Log Buildings and Logging in Early Pierce County, Wisconsin at age 92. This 240-page book was co-authored by Mary and her late friend, Dorothy (Eaton) Ahlgren. It features the history of early settlers who built their…
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Website Updates! Inventory of Major Collections Added
We have taken on the project of updating our website. We have so many collections of great resources in our archives here at the History Center in Bay City and wanted to better share a list of what we had that may help people in their research. We have just added the following: Newspaper Inventory…