Records of the Cedar Lake Telephone Cooperative and its predecessor, the Cedar Lake Rural Telephone Company, consisting of minutes of meetings and financial records of the Company, 1907-1955. In 1955 the Company did not have sufficient funds to rehabilitate its lines for service and the Cooperative was formed. Records of the Cooperative include a corporation record book (1955-1956), check stubs (1957-1958), and stock certificates (1955).

Daily cash journal, 1872-1873, a record of transit points, and a map of the company's mill known as "Junction Mill" at River Falls, Wis.
The map shows size of buildings, type of machinery, and daily capacity. The mill was owned by A.D. Andrews and Company after 1873, then became the A.A. Freeman Flouring Mill. Accompanying these records are miscellaneous expense accounts, 1904-1911, for Fred Chinnock, a millwright in Colfax and River Falls.

Papers of Carl Pemble of River Falls, Wisconsin, president of Save the St. Croix, Incorporated, a citizens' group opposed to construction of a Northern States Power Company generating plant on the St. Croix River at Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, because of its potential for ecological and recreational damage.
Also present are papers on the River Falls Committee for Human Survival, a group seeking nuclear disarmament and an end to nuclear testing.

Artificially collated collection of manuscripts materials donated by a number of individuals living in or otherwise associated with Burnett, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties. Includes both primary source materials, such as abstracts, warrantee deeds, correspondence, photographs, certificates, marriage records, etc., in addition to secondary sources, such as compiled genealogies and other records. Collection is no longer being maintained or added to as of January 2020.

Index to county cemeteries located in Burnett, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties. The St. Croix Valley Genealogical Society (SCVGS) completed an extensive project in the 1980s to inventory tombstones in local cemeteries. Transcriptions were made from tombstones for most of the cemeteries in the counties of Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix by the SCVGS over the course of this project. Burnett County cemeteries were indexed by a number of volunteers.

Ready reference collection of subject files, historically called 'vertical files' (vertical file), arranged by county (Burnett, Pierce, Polk, or St. Croix), thereunder by name of town/city or miscellaneous subject matter deemed of historical interest. Collection is no longer being maintained or added to as of January 2020.

Burnett County probate volumes that document records regarding estate, administration, executorship, wills, sales, and heirship. Executors and wills volumes include similar material to probate and administration: last wills and testaments, documents regarding administration, appraisal and inventory of real estate, and claims. The general inventory volume includes inventory and appraisal of real estate and oaths of appraisers.

The volume for 1891-1916 contains docket entries giving the name of the defendant, the charge, sentence or judgment, and sometimes court fees; record of commitments to state schools, and informations. A few early entries from the Circuit are included. Volume 1 (1895-1958) gives the case number, defendant and his/her attorney, the charge, witnesses, sentence or judgment, and court fees. Includes record of commitments to state schools. Name index in the front of the volume. Acts as an index to the County Court Cases in C2003/032.

Record of Circuit Court civil case proceedings, providing a brief history of each action with cross references to other related court volumes. Entries give the names of the plaintiff, defendant, and attorney; date of case disposition; sometimes the nature of the action; and for Volumes D-G the case number.

Record of accidental injuries, giving name of person injured, residence, color, sex, race, marital status, date of injury, cause and extent of injury, result and duration of injury, where attended, by whom attended, name of employer, and if an industrial injury, location of factory.
This record was required by Laws of Wisconsin, 1905, Chapter 416.

Volume 1 includes statements of taxes and indebtedness filed by towns and villages, showing date, assessed valuation, all taxes levied, and all bonded and other indebtedness incurred and outstanding. Also present are statements of county taxes levied, purposes for which county tax money was spent, and county indebtedness.

Supervisor of Assessments' annual reports to the County Board, printed by the County Clerk under Wis. Laws of 1905, Ch. 523, Sect. 4. Each report contains a table of amount of state, county, school, and local tax revenue, classified by type of tax; a table of total assessed valuation of each county; tables for each town of acreage and assessed valuation of lands and improvements, classified by use; tables showing assessed and recommended full value of real estate (classified by use) and personal property (classified by type) in each assessment district; and general advisory remarks.

Reports of real estate sales recorded in the register of deeds office, submitted to the clerk by the Wisconsin Tax Commission under Chapter 522, Laws of 1907, showing assessment district, date of sale, date the sale was recorded, volume and page where recorded, grantor, grantee, land description, acreage, consideration given in the deed, assessed valuation given on the tax roll, and totals for each assessment district and the county.
The 1911 report gives total figures on sales data and assessed valuations for each assessment district and the county, ratio of assessed to true value, and ratio of each district to the county total. With the 1911 report is the Statistical Report of the Supervisor of Assessments for 1911, which contains assessment data and a table showing the market value of real estate by towns from 1906 to 1910.

Audit reports and supporting papers submitted to the board of supervisors by the Bureau of Municipal Audit or by public accountants employed by the board to make the annual audit.
Each report contains a statement by the auditor on the condition of the financial records of the county and any errors which were found. Summary financial statements of all the county funds showing the receipts, disbursements, and balances of the various funds for the year follows.

Annual printed directories of public officials having jurisdiction within the county, prepared and published by the county clerk. Directories list national and state officers and legislators, court justices and officers, county board members, county officers and certain county employees, and town, village, and city officers and supervisors.
More recent directories also show members of each county board standing committee, and U.S. census population totals for each local unit.
Included are directories for these years: 1930, 1943/4, 1944/5, 1947/8, 1949/50, 1959/60-1974, 1978, 1979, and 2004-2014. Additional directories may have been added since this cataloging.

Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors including minutes of Board meetings, resolutions, committee reports, reports of county officers and commissions, financial reports, and communications to the Board. The 1877-1881 volume is a photocopy of the original. (The original volume was charred in a courthouse fire prior to 1887, so it was photocopied for preservation and then discarded.) Volume A is an exact transcription of official proceedings as published in the Burnett County Sentinel. (The original volume for some of these years was destroyed in the courthouse fire.).

Proceedings of the County Board of Supervisors, published annually in pamphlet form under the provisions of Wisconsin Laws of 1901, Ch. 298, Sec. 3; including the County Clerk's minutes of each meeting of the County Board, and documents considered by the Board at each meeting. Documents include: petitions, memorials, communications, and claims addressed to the Board; reports of county officers and of Board committees; resolutions and ordinances; and other papers relating to operations, services, finances, planning, and policy of county government.

Assorted records from the court, including materials relating to the organization of the Village of Siren, 1913; one certificate of ordination, 1938; one marriage license, 1906; criminal statistics, 1932; one defendant tally sheet, 1936; a certification for the Union Indemnity Company, 1931; a court order designating the First National Bank of Grantsburg as a public depository, 1937; and two memorials, one to lawyer and judge William R. Foley, 1940, and one to circuit court clerk Newton Hickerson, 1909.

Transcript of oral history interview of Burdette Chapin and Darlene Peterson by University of Minnesota geography students Karen Van Buskirk and Kevin Hanron, concerning land use and conditions and vegetation in the areas of Fargo School and the Trimbelle River (River Falls township), and of Clay Corners School (Martell township), Pierce County, Wis.

This series contains several university publications and UW System publications. Bulletins include the Falcon Report, the Educational Bulletin, the Agricultural Bulletin, and the Centennial Addresses Bulletin. The university stopped issuing publications under the "Bulletin" title in the 1970's.

Documentation includes floor plans, bids, specifications, blueprints, historical perspectives, program statements, contracts, utility service, correspondence and receipts related to construction, remodeling, alterations, and additions to campus buildings, equipment, sidewalks, furniture and other campus construction projects. A long-range campus plan from March 1970, and inventories of the River Falls State Normal School from 1914 and 1916 are also included.

Family papers collected and collated by River Falls businessman and historian Bruce Earl Foster (1932-2007), great-grandson of early River Falls resident Judge Joel Foster.
Foster was born September 6, 1932 in River Falls, Wisconsin, to Letha (nee Chinnock) and Earl Hunter Foster. The last of three children, Bruce graduated from River Falls High School in 1954 and obtained a bachelors degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in 1958.
Foster worked as a professional Scout Leader for the Boy Scouts, sold life insurance for Metropolitan Life, drove a school bus, and operated an animal shelter for Pierce and St. Croix counties, which he later expanded to include grooming services. In his personal life, Foster was an avid fisherman, and involved in numerous social organizations in Pierce County throughout his life. He married Joy Rasmussen in 1961 and they had two children, Judie (1962-) and Andrew "Andy" (1968-).