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Early Days in Baraboo- Letter by Dr A A Noyes

Some of the early History of Glenville by Harry Slye

An Early Journey Through Sauk County
I.A. Lapham Describes What He Saw in the Fall of 1849 at the Dells, Lyons,
Devils Lake and Sauk Prairie.

Business Firms of Old Newport - Account Written by Dr. Ambrose Jones of Delton and Read Before the Sauk County Historical Society April 1, 1909

The Ferry House By John D. Jones 
Speech read before the Old Settler’s Association Jan. 31, 1913

War Work of Wisconsin Women in the Civil War
Paper read before the Sauk County Historical Society at the spring picnic, 1919.  Author Mrs. L.H. Palmer

Ah-ho-cho-ka (Blue Wing)
Written by Dr. F.D. Hulburt, Reedsburg, and read at the meeting of the Sauk County Historical Society, February 13, 1922, by M.H. Mould at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Hatch.

Col. S.V.R. Ableman
Paper read before the Sauk County Historical Society, by Mrs. Eva Lloyd Alexander, Monday Evening, Nov. 27, 1909.

Early School Incidents
Paper Read at Sauk County Historical Society by Charles Wing. July 30, 1908

Early Surveys Made in Sauk County and Some Incidents Connected with Field Work
By H.E. French, City Engineer.  June 16, 1928

Hauling Grain from Baraboo to Milwaukee
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society by H.H. Flynt, Ewing, Nebraska.
May 14, 1914

How Baraboo Streets Received Their Names
Written by City Engineer H. E. French for the Sauk County Historical Society Aug. 16, 1917

John M. True
(Read by R.B. Griggs at the home of Mrs. Frank Avery at a meeting of the 
Sauk County Historical Society, March 15, 1921.)

Making Maple Sugar on the Banks of Honey Creek
Picture of Rural Life in the Sweet Seasons of 1858 to 1875 When Comforts and Luxuries Came from Nature’s Storehouse. By John Rooney, Arbor Cottage, Baraboo, WI.  Read Nov. 27, 1911

Merriment Goes Around
Old Letter Is Read and Unusual Stories Are Told by Those Present. March, 1914

Old Time Doctors
Written by Dr. B.F. Mills and read by City Engineer H.E. French before the Sauk County Historical Society at the annual meeting November 2, 1907.

Our People of the Fifties  
Picture of Baraboo as a Village in the Decade before the Civil War”. Written for the Sauk County Historical Society by Mrs. T.W. English. July 27, 1911    

Paper on Baraboo Fifty Years Ago and More
Early Recollections by Eliza S. Chapman of this City—Several Pioneer Characters Described. May 11, 1908  

Pioneer Occupations
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society by N. G. Abbott, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. April 4, 1918  

Prescott Brigham - by Grace Premo  
Read before the Sauk County Historical Society, April 9, 1923

Recollections of the Indian Days
Written by M.H. Mould for the Sauk County Historical Society.

Further Reminiscences of Ableman, and a Sequel
Written for the Sauk County Historical Society by Mrs. Eva Slye Alexander.
April 2, 1918

Some Exploded Theories…of Devil’s Lake - by City Engineer H. E. French  
Read Before the Sauk County Historical Society, February 17, 1908

Some Sauk County Teachers I Have Known
A Paper Read before the Meeting of the Sauk County Historical Society by James A. Stone.  December 19, 1935

The Charter House, Ableman, Wisconsin - by Mrs. Eva Alexander
September 25, 1924

The Ghoul of Parfrey's Gorge - Read Feb. 13, 1914

The Hop Days in Sauk County - by Hon. John M. True
Paper Read Before the Sauk County Historical Society, January 25, 1908

The Indians of Sauk County - by Verne S. Pease. Read March 17, 1906.
Published in the Baraboo Daily News and the Baraboo Weekly News. 

The Old State or Military Road - by William Toole, Sr.
Published, Feb. 15, 1923  

The Sawmill at Merrimac - 1857 to 1861

 

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