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Ontario Public Library
Mailing Address: P. O. Box 69
Location: 313 Main St.
Ontario, WI 54651
Phone: (608) 337-4651

Email: ontlibr@wrlsweb.org
Hours:  Monday & Wednesday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.;
Friday 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Located in: Vernon County, Wisconsin
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Local History & Genealogy Materials Available Include the Following Types of Material. Click on a heading for more specific information about that subject.

County & Town Histories & Biographical Sketches
Local Newspapers
      Monroe County
      Vernon County

Plat Maps & Books
Yearbooks

 
COUNTY & TOWN HISTORIES & BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Always the River: A Sesquicentennial History of Ontario, Wisconsin, 1857-2007
The Memorable Kickapoo Valley (1977)
Ontario Centennial (1957)
Monroe County, Wisconsin Pictorial History (1976)
Monroe County, Wisconsin Heritage Book (1984)
History of Vernon County, Wisconsin (1884)
Vernon County, Wisconsin, Heritage (1994)
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LOCAL NEWSPAPERS -- Published in Monroe County
Place of Publication & Titles Dates Format Can Copy?
Norwalk
   County Line

Tomah
   Tomah Journal & Monitor Herald

Aug. 1996-present
(we have most issues)


6 months

paper



paper




yes



yes

LOCAL NEWSPAPERS -- Published in Venron County
Place of Publication & Titles Dates Format Can Copy?
Viroqua
  
Vernon County Broadcaster
6 months
paper yes
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PLAT MAPS & BOOKS
County Dates
Monroe County 1994, 1997
Vernon County 1992, 1993-1994, 1998
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YEARBOOKS
Place & School Year Published
Ontario, Vernon Co., WI
   High Schools
     Brookwood


     Ontario


1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1975-1977, 1980-1984, 1986-1993
1952, 1955-1960
Norwalk, Monroe Co., WI
   High School

1958
Last Updated: June 2008  
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