Browse our online articles on people, places, and events in the history of Grant County, Wisconsin. Scroll to the bottom for links to other local history resources.
Historical Blog Posts
Browse all the history articles published to our blog here: Historical Essays.
Historical Photographs
View a sample of our historical photograph collection online.
Downloadable PDFs
The items below include articles by GCHS contributor Dennis Wilson, as well as a few digitized newspaper and print publications of local interest.
- Rattlesnakes
- Strongman of Lancaster
- A Tour of Potosi and British Hollow
- Bootlegging in Old Grant County
- Bed Bugs
- Lawyer Piquette
- Armistice Day Storm
- An Inevitable Future
- A Medal of Honor
- All Star Team of 1943
- Alexander Willard
- A Letter From New Guinea
- Mable Judd – Grant County Suffragist
- John B Callis – Alabama Congressman
- Jimmie Dodge
- Grant County Circus
- Ghost Towns of Grant County
- George N Schuster
- Garbage and Street Cleaning in the 1890s
- From the College Scrapbook of Floraine Wilson
- Forehand Building Fire
- Finding Private Thomas Green
- Does a Hobo Have Rights?
- Disaster and Deliverance
- Diptheria
- Dillinger
- Death Ship
- David Schreiner
- The Night City Hall Burned
- Civil War Soldiers’ Faith
- Captain Farquharsons Letter
- Bloody Civil War
- Albert Bloomer of Platteville Meets History
- The Problem With History
- The Pickett
- The Life of the Smelter Man
- The Lancaster Area Art Club
- Thanksgivings Past
- Superstition
- Strongman of Lancaster
- Spinning History
- Small Pox in Grant County
- Slavery in Grant County
- Sealing the Fate of the Great White Plague
- Roser
- Romulus and Lillie Richmond
- Rindlaub
- Remember Little Sammy Draper
- Potosi Serial Killer
- Peoples State Embezzlement
- New Deal
- Minnie Richmond
- Mine Disasters
- Method of Painting in Oil
- Mazzuchellion Religious Toleration
- Mastodons in Wisconsin
- Lela Smith
- Judge Mills Visits Lincoln
- Where is Red Bird Buried
- Watton
- War and Free Speech
- Two Soldiers
- The Twisted Life of Charles Latimer
- The Story of Sgt Lastam
- The Soft Spot in B606
Other Websites
These resources are not hosted by the Grant County Historical Society, but they offer valuable local history collections and information.
- History & Politics Blog by Dennis Wilson
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Grant County Historical Society’s contribution to Recollection Wisconsin
- Grant County Genealogical Society
- Historic Mapworks Grant County Plat Maps 1877-2004
- Wisconsin Genealogy Trails