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NEW PAST PRESS A small, independent publisher located in Friendship, New Past Press specializes in books on regional Wisconsin history as well as other subjects of historical interest. These volumes, often lavishly illustrated, are known for both their quality and readability, and many have received the Wisconsin Historical Society's Award of Merit. Sauk County titles are among the company's offerings.

PLAIN HISTORY GENEALOGY GROUP  The main objective of group is to gather information about the Plain, Wisconsin area and share it.  One way that we share our gathered data is that we have digitized a lot of good stuff and made copies on CD-ROMs. Our website describes most of our holdings. It has thumbnails of over 15,000 photos and documents that we have digitized.  We also share our gathered data through our bi-monthly newsletter. All of our newsletters can be found on our website. The newsletters cover a wide range of topics. Our bi-monthly meetings are another great source of information. We usually have a presentation on a topic of general interest. These topics include history, genealogy and "how to use a computer/technology." We also have about an hour of "playtime" during which people look at the neat stuff other people have brought in. Our on-line newsletter contains information about what happened at our meeting. The Kraemer Library and Community Center has recently acquired 10 PCs which we use for hands on training. There are no membership fees and everyone is welcome to attend our meetings.

Reedsburg Library www.scls.lib.wi.us/ree The library's collection consists of over 50,000 books. This includes a large variety of fiction genre in hardcover and paperback, children's materials, nonfiction and an extensive collection of large print books. Our collection also includes audio books, videos, dvds, compact discs, cassettes, magazines and computer multimedia kits. 12 Internet stations to include word processing and in-house CD-ROMs and two Macintosh and one PC workstations. Children's programs include story times, after school programs, evening family story times, and the summer reading program. Rental of AV equipment: E-Book Reader, Camcorder, Digital Camera, Overhead Projector, Slide Projector, and Opaque Projector. Study rooms, Conference Room, and Community Room available for public use. Historic Reedsburg Photographs in Digital Format The library has a collection of CD - ROMs that contain digital images of 19th and 20th Century photographs of the Reedsburg area. These discs were produced in 1999 through an extensive project whereby pictures from various local history collections were scanned, organized, and indexed by William Schuette. This wonderful collection consists of the following: 7 CDs (Over 500 photographs) containing Street & Buildings scenes, Businesses (interior & exterior), disasters, fires. 4 CDs (Over 700 individuals) of Reedsburg Area People. 1 CD (127 individuals) of Reedsburg Civil War soldiers 1 CD - Ironton 3 CDs - LaValle 1 CD - Historical & Architectural Walking Tour 1 CD - Reedsburg Historic Survey 2 CDs - Rock Springs/Ableman 8 CDs - Loganville 1 CD - LaValle fire of Jan 6 & 7, 2001 Local History Room The Library offers a Local History Room that houses a microfilm machine and computer. The Room has a special collection of books relating to the Reedsburg area. The collection includes family histories, city directories, cemetery guides, and county plat books. The microfilm collection includes all the Reedsburg newspapers on film as well as county census records and Sanborn city maps. In 1999, Bill Schuette, a local historian, put a collection of old photographs on CD-ROM's. These can be viewed and printed in the Local History Room, or can be purchased. Library Board Room (Archives) The Library Board Room is located in the old Carnegie Library at 345 Vine Street. It houses the library's rare and historic aterial collection. These books are related to the history of Wisconsin and the Reedsburg area. The room has a collection of bound newspapers and many items from the collections of the Old Settlers and the Reedsburg Historical Society. Books and materials are available through special request to the Library Director. A list of what is found in the collection is available at the library.

Baraboo Library www.scls.lib.wi.us/baraboo Baraboo Public Library has The Baraboo News Republic on microfilm beginning in 1855, indexes to births, deaths and marriages, Sauk County histories, older Sauk County directories, phone books and numerous other local history information.

Cemeteries of Sauk County Wisconsin http://www.interment.net/us/wi/sauk.htm A work in progress, this site contains a list of Sauk County cemeteries, their location, and a brief history of each. It also contains a complete list of the burials, and any dates and information included on the stones. As work is completed on cemeteries not listed, they will be added to this comprehensive listing.

Jill Metcoff is a black and white photographer specializing in rural and environmental landscape. Her book Along the Wisconsin Riverway (UWPress, 1998) highlights five habitats along the river with particular attention to wild and settled places in Sauk County. Her cameras have primarily focussed on southwestern rural Wisconsin for more than thirty years. Views of homebuilding, marriage and motherhood; the woods, river and prairies outside my door; events from the Fourth of July annual chicken dinner to the Cow Chip Throw; the closing and later division of almost 10,000 acres and thousands of structures of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant; even the ravages wrought by highway projects. All of these describe this place. She and her family live in a handbuilt cabin in Sauk County part of each year. www.jillmetcoff.com

Sauk Prairie Area Historical Society http://www.saukprairiehistory.org The Sauk Prairie area includes a large rural area and the communities of Sauk City, Prairie du Sac, Merrimac, Leland, Denzer, Blackhawk, Witwen, and Roxbury. We own and operate three museum sites; Tripp Memorial Museum, Lady of Loretto Church Museum, and Salem (Ragatz) Church Museum, and lease and operate a fourth site, the Sauk City Fire Station Museum, owned by the Village of Sauk City.  Tripp Memorial Museum located at 565 Water Street in downtown Prairie du Sac is our primary site having two floors of display area, museum office, and basement storage area.  The "Tripp" is also the temporary home of the Badger History Group working to preserve the history of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant. The single greatest cultural and economic event to take place in the Sauk Prairie area since the white settlers began crossing the Wisconsin River onto the Sauk Prairie in 1838.