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Search digitized Appleton history resources – including photographs, key events, directories, and more.
View a list of historic firsts in the City of Appleton.
View a timeline of important events in the City of Appleton’s history
View videos on a variety of genealogy topics from our monthly Find Your Ancestors genealogy series. Visit our online calendar for upcoming presentations.
View digital library of local history including text, images, and links to other local history resources.
Join Local History Librarian, Katie Stilp, for our monthly genealogy series. View our online calendar to see upcoming programs.
Partial index to photos from books in the Don & Betty Jabas Appleton Collection, generally scenes from Appleton history. The photos may be viewed in the library or requested as photocopies. Photos are not available online.
Name index of Record of the pioneers of Outagamie County, Wisconsin by Elihu Spencer. Features biographical sketches and photos of many residents of settlements in Outagamie County in 1895.
Video Tutorial
Video Tutorial
Name index to four plat books for Outagamie County: Plat Book of Outagamie County, WI (1889), Plat Book of Outagamie, WI (ca. 1927-1928), Standard Atlas of Outagamie County (1917), and Atlas of Outagamie County (1942). The index will link you to digitized maps hosted on the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections site.
Video Tutorial
Video Tutorial
Search for articles from The Post-Crescent on important events to get the date and page number. You can retrieve the article from microfilm in the library or request we email you the article for free.
View local history resources including plat maps, city directories, historic building surveys, biographies, and more.
Video Tutorial
Video Tutorial
Grave registration information on over 500 Fox River area deceased veterans from the War of 1812 to World War I.
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