OUR ARCHIVES

Audio tapes

Business and Industry histories, photos, and records

Cemetery Records for Woodside and Hillside Cemeteries. Records (including St. Patrick’s Cemetery) can also be found online at riponlibrary.org

City of Ripon historical documents, photos and records from the police and rec department, municipal improvements, limited tax rolls

Clubs and Organizations

DVD’s of past historical society presentation and panel discussions

Genealogy (obituaries, family files, family Bibles, the Pedrick Genealogy)
Access the Ripon Library Pedrick Genealogy Here

House histories: history of homes in the two historic districts and limited information on various other houses

Newspapers: the Society has a limited selection of newspaper resources. Newspapers are available on microfiche at the Ripon Public Library and the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Some are also available online through the same resources.

Obituary records 1961 – present. An index of these obituaries can be found online at:
The Pedrick Papers including:
• Pedrick Historical Collection of fifty volumes
• Pedrick Newspaper Articles 1932-1943
• Pedrick Genealogy Notebooks up to 1960

Personal and Family histories

Republican Party

Ripon College: Ripon College keeps its own archives which can be accessed at ripon.edu/library/archives/

Schools

Scrapbooks

Subject Files

Wars
Includes: World War II Articles; copies of Ripon Commonwealth Newspapers titled “Letters Home” and “War Progress” 1941-1945, also indexed by Ripon Soldiers’ names. These can be seen by appointment

Wisconsin Phalanx