Looking Back (2021)

Archives staff/volunteers/interns/guest historians put together a lot of great blog posts in 2021; please take a moment to check out these local history topics by clicking on the blog titles or photos.

Buildings

• An Unappreciated Italian Delight

• Historic La Crosse Fire Stations

• Grand Temporary Performance Venue Built for 1908 Saengerfest

• The Fishy Story of Riverside Park's North End

Industries

• The Segelke & Kohlhaus Manufacturing Company

• Trane Company and the Nuclear Age

• Pamperin Cigar Company

• The Rubber Mills Blues

• Pass the Potatoes, Please

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People

• An Early Automobile Saleswoman

• Prosper Steves and Loretto the Cork Woman

• The Poisoned Pharmacist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Society

• Vigilantes in La Crosse

• 1947 Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Hotel Stoddard

• Burns Park: A Community Legacy

• La Crosse's German Vereins: Their Rise and Decline, Part 1

• La Crosse's German Vereins: Their Rise and Decline, Part 2

• Roll Out the Barrel!

• Sundown Towns and La Crosse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Odds and Ends

• Why Old is Green: January Program Series

• La Crosse's Struggle for Safe Water

• A Viewer's Guide to Dark La Crosse Stories