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Janesville's Past
READ - Browse stories, chronologies and histories written by local authors.
- Century of Stories by Mike DuPre
- City on the Rock River by Carol Lohry Cartwright
- History of Janesville by Raymond E. Fenrick, 1969
- History of Janesville 1835-1935 by Mary Ann Bostwick Hulick
- History of the Janesville Public Schools, 1839-1987
- Janesville Public Library: A Centennial History, 1884-1984 by Janice Kay Pierce
- Janesville's Early History
- Medical History of Janesville, 1833-1933 by John Vosburgh Stevens
- Reflections from a Warming House Window by Virginia Leffler
SEE - View images, photos and postcards of Janesville through the years.
- Art Work of Rock County
- Debra Case Historical Janesville Postcard Collection
- Headlight Souvenir Edition: Janesville, Wis (1896)
- Gruver Photograph Collection - Historical photos collected by Lowell (Bud) Gruver
- Janesville Fire Department Souvenir Album (1902)
- Picturesque Janesville (1888)
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FIND - Search Janesville directories and walking guides
- Janesville city Directories
- 1857 | 1859-60 | 1862 | 1866 | 1870 | 1876 | 1878-79 | 1880 | 1884-85 | 1889 | 1889-90 | 1892-93 | 1894-95 | 1896-97 | 1898-99 | 1900-01 | 1902-03 | 1903 | 1905 | 1907 | 1909 | 1911 | 1913 | 1915 | 1917 | 1919 | 1921 | 1923 | 1925 | 1927 | 1929 | 1931
- Janesville Fire Department Souvenir Album (1902)
- Walking Guides to Janesville Historic Districts
Janesville's Past Sample items in the collection
Additional Resources
The Local History Database is Hedberg Public Library's index to Janesville and Rock County history, through newspaper articles, photographs, books and essays
A partial index to obituaries in the Janesville Gazette
Rock County Genealogical Society
Rock County Historical Society
Milton Historical Society and Milton House Museum
Beloit Historical Society
Beckman Mill
Evansville, Wisconsin's History
USGenWeb Project for Rock County, Wisconsin
Sterling North Society (Edgerton WI)
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Digitization of Janesville's Past is a collaborative project completed by the UWDCC and the Hedberg Public Library and was funded, in part, through matching grants from the Hedberg Public Library Foundation, Janesville Firefighters Union Local # 580, a 2005 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, a 2008 LSTA grant, and a 2011 LSTA grant. LSTA grants provide financial support for public libraries to digitize and make available online, their local library resources. For more information about LSTA grants in Wisconsin, contact the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) Division for Libraries and Technology or visit the LSTA grant website.
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