3rd Grade Portage County Wisconsin History
This site is about the history of Portage County as well as the Portage County Historical Society. Visit the Malcolm Rosholt Online Archives for many articles about the people, places and events that have made up our history. Please visit our main Educational Programs page for additional resources.
Below are specific links that may be of interest to 3rd Grade Researchers. Links to offsite locations will open in new window or tab.
- Malcolm Rosholt's history of Portage County: Our County, Our Story.
- Histories of the Communities that make up Portage County.
- Maps, maps and more maps!
- Searchable photo collection available through the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Archives.
- A Time Line for Portage County.
- Our "General History" and the histories of the townships can be found here.
- Make use of the U. S. Geological Survey site's "Educational Material section and in particular the section for Grades K-6 page.
Tours of Portage County, Wisconsin already available on this site
- View historic Time Line.
- Read the 1857 "Handbook of Stevens Point"
- Drive the Polish Heritage Highway in Portage County
- Or, take the Polish Heritage Trail.
- Take a Tour of Portage County.