New Website Series to begin Monday!

Beginning Monday, May 21, 2012, the Buffalo County Historical Society will be publishing an article, advertisement or story from Buffalo County's newspaper archives every Monday. The dates will be based on the corresponding date in a random year and newspaper, covering all 369 years of Buffalo County newspapers in the BCHS archives. To learn more about using the newspapers for researching your family history or other research, please contact our office. To see a list of the newspapers available at our office, please check out our newspaper page.

 

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Odd Wisconsin

  • Buckskin Brown and the Marvelous Shingles
    A Greek philosopher once claimed that you can never step into the same river twice. His maxim apparently escaped the notice of some Wisconsin lumberjacks. The trees of the Wisconsin River pinery were among the first harvested. As early as 1853, 20 mills were running more than 100 saws and floating 70 million feet of lumber downriver each year. Makeshift...

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