WPT: Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Wausau

Wausau: Resources

Explore the following articles and Web sites for more insight into the history of Wausau.

Teacher resources
Teachers can select from an array of online materials related to Wausau's stories created by a Wausau teacher committee working in cooperation with the Educational Communications Board.

General Resources

Durbin, Richard D. The Wisconsin River: an Odyssey through Time and Space. Cross Plains, WI: Spring Freshet, 1997. Print.

Geisel, Robert K., Robert G. Becker, Phil Carspecken, and Margaret Carspecken. Forever in Focus: Historic Images around the World of Wausau. Wausau, WI: S.n., 2004. Print.

Hettinga, Mary Jane Uecker. Wausau Chronicles. Wausau, WI: Birch Lake, 2002. Print.

Janke Book Store. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. http://www.jankebookstore.com/

Janke, John, and Jane Janke. Johnson. Big Bull Falls: Postcard Views of Wausau, Wisconsin. Wausau, WI: Birch Lake, 2000. Print.

Klueter, Howard R., and James J. Lorence. Woodlot and Ballot Box: Marathon County in the Twentieth Century. Wausau, WI: Marathon State Historical Society, 1977. Print.

Kronenwetter, Michael. Wisconsin Heartland: the Story of Wausau and Marathon County. Midland, MI: Pendell Pub., 1984. Print.

Martin, George Alfred., John Janke, and Jane Janke. Johnson. Wausau in 1900. Wausau, WI: Birch Lake, 1987. Print.

Pinkerton, Kathrene Sutherland Gedney. Bright with Silver. New York: W. Sloane Associates, 1947. Print.

Rosholt, Malcolm Leviatt. A Photo Album of Marathon County, 1850-1925. Rosholt, WI: Rosholt House, 1978. Print.

Stark, William F. Wisconsin, River of History. S.l.: S.n., 1988. Print.

Svetlik, Paul D. Big Bull Falls : Historic Downtown Wausau Vol. 1. Wausau, WI: Wausau, WI Marathon County Historical Society, 1986. Print.

Wylie, Robert C. Wings North: Wausau's Aviation History. Friendship, WI: New Past, 2001. Print.

Local History Resources

Marathon County Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society, local history articles search

Marathon County Local History digital collection

"History of Marathon County" by Louis Marchetti, 1913

History of Northern Wisconsin 1881

"A Photo Album of Marathon County, 1850-1925" by Malcolm Roscholt

Articles about Wausau in 1913 from The Municipality, Volume 13, Issue 7, by the League of Wisconsin Municipalities

"Dynamite for the Brain’: The Growth and Decline of Socialism in Central and Lakeshore Wisconsin, 1910-1920," by James Lorence

Wausau becomes All-American City, 1984

Photos of Railroads, Schools and Libraries in Lincoln and Marathon counties

A Geological History of Rib Mountain

The history of Rib Mountain State Park

Janke Book Store local history

YouTube: Commercial for the grand opening of the Wausau Center Mall, 1983

Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives

Articles about Marathon County
History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens. ‹http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wch&CISOPTR=61858&REC=2›

Commemorative biographical record of the upper Wisconsin counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawano: containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families. ‹ http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wmh&CISOPTR=26329&CISOSHOW=26240&REC=2›

Indian Nomenclature, and the Chippewas by Hiram Calkins, Esq., of Wausau (1854). In the author's words: "I will now proceed to give a list of the Chippewa names, with their significations, of the tributary streams fo the wisconsin river ... " The latter part of this chapter briefly describes Ojibwe traditions relating to band structure, leadership ranks and hutning. ‹ http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/whc&CISOPTR=15147&CISOSHOW=15097&REC=2›

History of Marathon County, Wisconsin and Representative Citizens; Chapter XXIV: This chapter discusses the naming of Wausau and how it was divided.‹http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wch&CISOPTR=61858&CISOSHOW=61381&REC=2›

Articles about Wausau
The City of Wausau - As it Was as a village from 1861 to 1872-Its Officers-historical events-the flood of 186-fires--wausau fire comopany No. 1-Music Hall-Dramatic Clubs-The social life. ‹http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wch&CISOPTR=61858&CISOSHOW=61099&REC=1›

White Pine and Water Power

The Treaty of the Cedars
The 1836 "Treaty of the Cedars" in which the Menominee tribe gave up land on either side of the Wisconsin River, including present day Wausau.

Map of Menominee land cessions

"Pioneers of the Pinery" by Malcolm Roscholt.
This includes a chapter called "The Saga of George Stevens," the first settler in Wausau.

"Lumber rafting on the Wisconsin River" by W. H. Glover

Lumber Rafting: A Digital Resource

"The Pine Lumberjacks in Wisconsin," by Ruth Stoveken