The South Wood County Historical Museum has a wealth of research materials pertaining to local history. If you would like to use our research library, we would be glad to arrange a time for you to utilize our materials. To schedule an appointment, or to find out more information on available reserach materials, call us at 715-421-1580 or e-mail lori@swch-museum.com. Our library is open by appointment only.
We have the following materials, and more, for research purposes:
Plat Books
Photograph Collection
Newspaper Clippings
High School Yearbooks:
Wisconsin Rapids: 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 151, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 (2), 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1979, 1980
Nekoosa: 1920, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 193, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1975, 1976 (2), 1977, 1979 -Nekoosa Library has a complete collection of Nekoosa yearbooks.
Port Edwards: 1938, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1960
Rudolph: 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962
Wood County: 1939, 1941, 1957, 1958, 1964
Oral Histories of Wisconsin Rapids:
Volume 10, Side A: Len Broster and Mr. Streeter discuss the circus trainwreck that occured in Babcock.
Volume 13, Side B: Fern Amundson describes Andersonville Camp, a Civil War-era prison camp.
Volume 20, Side A: Theodore Brazeau speaks about Wisconsin Rapids Civil War veterans. Side B: Marshall Buehler gives lumbering/rafting history.
Volume 21, Side B: Maurice Rice speaks and reads clippings and diary entries on multiple drownings in a Wisconsin Rapids boating accident in which a boat went through the gate in the dam.
Volume 23, Side A: Dr. L.C. Pomainville gives the history of the Pomainville doctors and tells about medicine and doctors in eary Wood County.
Volume 27, Side B: Dennis Conway speaks about the Magnuson murder and the trial that ensued.
Volume 31, Side A: Emily Baldwin speaks on general Wisconsin state history.
Volume 35, Side A: Bill O'Gara discusses the railroad history of Wood County.
Volume 36, Side B: Grim Natwick recalls the history of Wood County and speaks on working for Walt Disney Studios.
Volume 43, Sides A & B: Dedication of the YMCA and shopping center in Port Edwards.
Volume 50, Side A: Grim Natwick discusses boyhood recollections and his career as a cartoonist.
Wisconsin Blue Books: 1861/62, 1885, 1903, 1909, 1911, 1919, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1931, 1935, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979/80, 1981/82, 1983/84, 1985/86, 1989/90, 1991/92, 1993/94, 1995/96, 1997/98, 1999/2000
Business, City, and Farm Directories:
Twin City Grand Rapids Directory- 1892
Wood County Business Directories- 1912, 1959, 1962
Wood County Farmers Directories- 1930, 1947, 1957, 1963
City Directories- 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914
Tri-City Directories- 1921, 1933, 1934, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1986
Wisconsin Rapids Area Telephone Directories- 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1990/91, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000