Title: Resources

Chippewa Falls, WI History

- The Chippewa County Chronicle (Chippewa County, WI: New Past Press Inc., 1995).

- The Chippewa Herald (Chippewa Falls).

- The Daily Independent (Chippewa Falls).

- Jim Schuh, Chippewa Falls Wisconsin: Images of America (Chippewa Falls: Arcadia, 2001)

Social Aspects of Main Streets

- Manuscript Census, Town of Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, U.S. Census of Population, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, in University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Archives Microfilm.

- Mosher, Anne E., Barry D. Keim, and Susan A. Franques. “Downtown Dynamics.” Geographical Review, 85 (Oct. 1995): 497-517.

- Muller, Peter O. “Everyday Life in Suburbia: A Review of Changing Social and Economic Forces That Shape Daily Rhythms Within the Outer City.” American Quarterly, 34 (1982): 262-277.

Cultural Implications of Main Streets

- The Chippewa Herald (Chippewa Falls).

- The Evening Independent (Chippewa Falls).

Economic Significance of Main Streets

- Chippewa Falls City Directories

- Cohen, Lizabeth. “From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America.” The American Historical Review, 101 (Oct. 1996): 1050-1081.

- Hart, John Fraser. “Small Towns and Manufacturing.” Geographical Review, 78 (July 1988): 272-287.

- Muller, Peter O. “Everyday Life in Suburbia: A Review of Changing Social and Economic Forces That Shape Daily Rhythms Within the Outer City.” American Quarterly, 34 (1982): 262-277.

- Sanborn Insurance Maps

Main Streets, General

- Atherton, Lewis. Main Street on the Middle Border. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1954.

- Davies, Richard O. Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984.

- Fogelson, Robert M. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

- Liebs, Chester A. Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985.

- Rifkind, Carole. Main Street: The Face of Urban America. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.

Chippewa Falls Main Street Today

- John Schuh, Executive Director of Chippewa Falls Main Street Inc., interview by Megan Trunnell, 9 October 2003, Chippewa Falls.

- “Welcome to Chippewa Falls Main Street.” At www.chippewafallsmainst.org.

Local History/Small Town Main Streets

- Dykstra, Robert R. and William Silag. “Doing Local History: Monographic Approaches to the Smaller Community.” American Quarterly, 37 (1985): 411-425.

- Francaviglia, Richard V. Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.


- Goldfield, David R. “Living History: The Physical City as Artifact and Teaching Tool.” The History Teacher, 8 (Aug. 1975): 535-556.


- Hart, John Fraser. “Small Towns and Manufacturing.” Geographical Review, 78 (July 1988): 272-287.


- Jakle, John A. The American Small Town: Twentieth-Century Place Images. Hamden: Shoe String Press Inc., 1982.


- Lingeman, Richard. Small Town America: A Narrative History 1620-The Present. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980.


- Russo, David J. American Towns: An Interpretive History. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001.


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