Chetek Area Museum
728 Second Street
PO Box 317
Chetek, WI  54728
715.255.0482
chetekmuseum@gmail.com
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History of Chetek

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The Chetek Area Museum has many references to learn more in depth about the Chetek area and Barron County history.  Examples of our archives include:

                                                    Bound volumes of the Chetek Alert
                                                    Cemetery Lot Information
                                                    Chetek High School Yearbooks: 1900-1965
                                                    Bulldog Bark Newspaper Collection
                                                    CHS Alumni Directory: 1899-1952
                                                    CHS graduation class pictures:  1920 - present
                                                    Historical Photographs
                                                    Local family history books

 Reference Books:               Pages from the Past by Hazel M. Calhoun
                                                     History of Barron County, Wisconsin, edited by Newton S. Gordon 1922

                                                           Collection Highlights:      Lloyd "Snoball" Severud ski jumping and Winter Olympics memorabilia
                                                                                                                      Chetek photograph
                                                                                                                      Plat books - 1888 to present
                                                                                                                      County school records
                                                                                                                      1950's era cedar strip Chetek Boat Company boat
                                                                                                                      30 hp Evinrude Lark motor
                                                                                                                      Lion's Club pin collections
                                                                                                                      Chetek Boat Company - toboggan
                                                                                                                      Heddon Lure Company - display
                                                                                                                      Tronick Trunk - tackle box
                                                                                                                      Chetek business's novelty display
                                                                                                                      Resort display
                                                                                                                      Bobber display
                                                                                                                      Antique furniture and artifacts

History of Barron County
History of Barron County, Wisconsin
edited by Newton S Gordon, compiled Franklyn Custiss-Wedge
HC Cooper, Jr & Co, Minneapolis MN - 1922
Barron County History Links
https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/wi/indianheadlochist/
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NW Wisconsin History Links
Barron County, Wisconsin
Barron County, Wisconsin
by Orville D. Edgbert
Kimball & Storer Co., Minneapolis, MN  - 1901
Heddon Fishing Lures
History of Heddon Fishing Lures in Chetek by Floyd Roberts.

UW-Stout County Archives
County record indexes for Barron, Dunn and Pepin.
Tronick Trunk
History of Tronick Luggage Co., once located in Chetek.
Chetek Boat Story
Where the Heck is Chetek.....Woody Boater article.
The Wisconsin Archeologist
Volume 3 https://ia802702.us.archive.org/30/items/wisconsinarcheol03wiscrich/wisconsinarcheol03wiscrich.pdf

Volume 4 
https://ia700401.us.archive.org/18/items/archeolwisconsin04wiscrich/archeolwisconsin04wiscrich.pdf

Volume 5 ​- 7

https://ia902706.us.archive.org/34/items/archeolwisconsin05wiscrich/archeolwisconsin05wiscrich.pdf

Volume 8 - 10​https://ia700400.us.archive.org/35/items/wisconsinarcheol89wiscrich/wisconsinarcheol89wiscrich.pdf

Volume 11 - 13​https://ia601409.us.archive.org/9/items/archeolwisconsin11wiscrich/archeolwisconsin11wiscrich.pdf

Volume 14-16
https://ia802605.us.archive.org/9/items/wisconsinarcheol14wiscrich/wisconsinarcheol14wiscrich.pdf

Volume 17 - 19​https://ia801406.us.archive.org/20/items/wisconsinarcheol17wiscrich/wisconsinarcheol17wiscrich.pdf

Volume 20- 22
https://ia802704.us.archive.org/26/items/wisconsinarcheol21wiscrich/wisconsinarcheol21wiscrich.pdf

Volume 23 - 25
https://ia801408.us.archive.org/9/items/wisconsinarcheol23wiscrich/wisconsinarcheol23wiscrich.pdf

Volume 29 - 31
​https://ia802704.us.archive.org/22/items/wisconsinarcheol29wiscrich/wisconsinarcheol29wiscrich.pdf
Barron County - 1871 Facts for the Immigrant
​Published Oct. 1901-Oct. 1902 by the Archeological Section of the Wisconsin Natural History Society
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