Read below about some upcoming events, and the Baldwin History Room, the Baldwin-Area Historical Society, and the St. Croix County Online Local History Collection, featuring many photos of old Baldwin.

 Special event:   Celebrate our towns’  founding with a Pioneer Review!

This October marks the 140th year anniversary of the founding of Baldwin.  A special commemoration is planned at the BW High School Performing Arts Center on Saturday, October 22 at 6:30 in the evening.  Listen as area residents present stories of several of our founding pioneers and why those founders chose to make Baldwin their home.  This review will focus on the founding years prior to the 1875 incorporation of the village.  Descendents of D.R. Bailey and other founding fathers have been invited to celebrate this anniversary celebration and are anticipated to attend.  This review will be presented by members of the community and Baldwin Area Historical Society with Sandy Burleigh as narrator.  No advanced registration is required and the admission will be free.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

 

Learn about Baldwin’s Historic Buildings

This fall marks the 140^th year anniversary of the founding of Baldwin as well as the construction of Baldwin’s first building—the Depot.  Join local historian, Leila Albert, as she gives a free talk highlighting many of the historic buildings of the Village.  Learn when these historic places were built and why they are significant to the community.  This presentation will take place in Room 100 of the BW High School on Tuesday, October 18 from 7:00 until 8:00 in the evening.  Those interested in attending this free presentation should register through BW Community Education by Tuesday, October 11^th.  Registration is easy:  call 688-6200, or e-mail: commed@bwsd.k12.wi.us and give your name and name of session.

 

Do you know how Baldwin got its name?

Locally renowned history buff, Sandy Burleigh, will give a free talk of little-known facts about the respected man, Daniel A. Baldwin, whose name was used to mark our town on the map of Wisconsin.  Mr. Baldwin was President of the West Wisconsin Railroad.  His business expertise and loyalty to local communities has been attributed to the success of many small towns in western Wisconsin. Find out more about this remarkable character whom the founding pioneers found so endearing on Thursday, November 10 from 6:30-8 pm in BWHS Room 115.  Please register by Thursday Nov. 3^rd with BW Community Education if you would like to attend this free presentation.  Registration is easy:   call 688-6200, or

e-mail: commed@bwsd.k12.wi.us   and give your name and name of this session.

Baldwin Library History Room

 The Baldwin Library History Room is home to an impressive collection of objects and records relating to area history.  There are history books and manuscripts, cemetery records, endless issues of the Baldwin Bulletin, census records, area maps and photographs, genealogical records, historic magazines and books, and files full of clippings that highlight historic places and past events.

 Help by donating your time, memories, and creativity to maintain the library history room as a local historical resource available to Baldwin area residents and visitors. 

 Volunteers can identify faces and places in old photos or assist with genealogy and history related activities by reading old editions of the Baldwin Bulletin or adding clippings and information to the genealogical binders. 

The contents of the history room are a rare, precious, and important historic resource.  It is up us, as a community, to ensure this collection is safeguarded for current and future generations.

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Baldwin Area Historical Society   -   www.baldwinhistory.org 

 General Meetings:  Quarterly third Saturdays (March 19, June 18, Sept. 17, Dec. 17), 10:30am, Municipal Bldg. Meeting Room

 Our history tells the story of us through our treasured items and objects, memories and traditions, people and places, buildings, clippings, pictures, articles, books, and notes that are typically tucked away in attics, garages, closets, sheds, and basements.

Baldwin Area Historical Society needs the help and support of area residents, organizations, and businesses. 

Show your support by donating your keepsakes, attending Society meetings, or participating in projects that will culminate in historical articles and exhibitions, educational programs, heritage tourism and special events to save and share our community heritage. 

Baldwin Area Historical Society has a number of efforts and activities currently underway to enhance understandings of and energize interest in our local heritage.  Find out about current projects on the website.

 Area residents, organizations, and businesses have the opportunity to support these efforts and activities by becoming members, making donations, joining committees, contributing creativity, and volunteering time. 

 There are endless ways to help ensure our local history is not forgotten and instead is preserved and promoted. 

Become a member today by submitting the form on the website (www.baldwinhistory.org) or contact Leila Albert, Baldwin Area Historical Society President, 715-222-9485 or Rebecca Dixen, Baldwin Library Director, 715-684-2116 to volunteer or otherwise show your support. 

 

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Baldwin-Area History is now available to the online world!

You can now view photos and writings of Baldwin history on a computer and share them with family and friends all over the country!

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/IndianheadLocHistAbout.html

 

 The library recently participated in a grant to get some items of local history from our History Room converted to digital format so they could be placed on the Internet and made widely available.  This is very exciting because the conversion process is expensive and we couldn't have done it without the help of the grant from the federal Library Service and Technology Act.  Many photos of Baldwin's early businesses, schools, churches, etc. and books of historical memories have been digitized already and we hope to have more soon.  Check out the link above or go to the Historical Society website (baldwinhistory.org)