Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin Colonization Company Records
Inclusive Dates: 1916-1938

Creator:

• Wisconsin Colonization Company

Call Number: Northland Mss 9; Eau Claire Mss K; AC 585; AC 586

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 2 films (16 mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections, the Area Research Center, History Center and Archives, Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, and the Area Research Center, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections.

Archival Locations:

Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center / Ashland Area Research Ctr. (Map)

UW-Eau Claire McIntyre Library / Eau Claire Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers collected by Benjamin Faast, president of the Wisconsin Colonization Company, relating to the organization's sale of “ready-made” farms in southern Sawyer County and the development of the village of Ojibwa. Included are letters to stockholders and settlers; a small amount of correspondence received by Faast; historical data on the upper Chippewa River area, the local Indian tribes, fur trade, and lumber industry; biographical data on settlers; a general ledger, 1923-1925; and two films relating to Ojibwa and the Chippewa River Valley.

Note:

Originals of the manuscript portion of this collection are at the Northern Great Lakes Center. A photocopy is owned by and available at the Eau Claire Area Research Center.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-nort0009

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