Research
This site has been redesigned to facilitate people's efforts to do research on Portage County and genealogy. This end we are providing links to off site sources as well as links within our site.
- Malcolm Rosholt Online Archives -- contains 100's of articles.
- Heritage Park Research Center
- UWSP Archives
- Genealogy resources
- Railroad History -- this sub web has articles concerning all things regarding railroading in Central Wisconsin and beyond.
- Outside the Lines -- not about Portage County but worthy of publication.
- Educational Material -- we are building lesson plans, field trips itineraries and general history for use of this site in the classroom.
Off Site and Digital Copies
- Wisconsin State Historical Society -- vast collection of material online
- Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection -- access to there digitalized collections.
- Our County, Our Story -- Malcolm Rosholt's history of Portage County. No longer available in print, the Portage County Library System has digitalized the book and made it available in pdf format.
- Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin River (1895) -- The Wisconsin Historical Society offers this in digital format (pdf).
- Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection -- many county histories available here (pdf format).