Learning by Doing Extension Project 2008
Urbanization and Industrialization: The Impact on Three Wisconsin Towns
By: Amy Lund
Additional Resources on Community Development
Online Aggregate Census Data
Historical Census Browser http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/ This site allows to you sort data and make charts. It sorts by state and by county.
IPUMS USA Published Census Volumes http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/tPublished.shtml This site has Adobe Acrobat versions of all the published aggregate census data. It is not sortable.
Online Census Enumeration Pages
Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com (you must be a member to access some information, or it can be accessed for free at the Eau Claire Public Library)
HeritageQuest http://persi.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/
library/do/login/barcode?aid=9339 (you must have a MORE Library card to access this site)
Online Census Information
IPUMS USA Data Center http://usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/tEnumForm.shtml
Online sources for historical photos:
Wisconsin Historical Society http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/advancedSearch.asp
Library of Congress Digital Collection http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
Information on how to do Photo or Document analysis
History Matters Making Sense of Evidence http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/
Online Historical Wisconsin Blue Books
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/
WI/WI-idx?type=browse&scope=WI.WIBlueBks
Information on Company Towns
Boyd, Lawrence. “The Company Town”. EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. January 31, 2003. URL http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/boyd.company.town
Online Sanborn Maps
LE Phillips Memorial Library Genealogy Site
http://www.ecpubliclibrary.info/index.php?option=
com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=192&limit=1&limitstart=2 (Right-click on Sanborn Maps, otherwise the site won’t open)
Area Research Centers
Wisconsin Historical Society http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/arcnet/ There are 13 ARCs around the state that have information about local history. This site lists and links to them.
ARC at UWEC http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/arcnet/eauclair.asp or http://www.uwec.edu/Library/archives/index.htm The ARC is located on the 5th floor of McIntyre Library on the UWEC campus, and has tons of information on local history topics.
