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Photograph

General Store and Post Office

Date: 1895
Description: General store and post office. Hans Johsnon, Newport's founder, is shown on the porch. Logs are stacked in the foreground. The post office was established ...
Photograph

"Greetings from Newport, RI"

Date: 1898
Description: A woman in a bathing suit stands on the beach and holds what appears to be a seashell. The ocean is in the background. This woman is contained within a she...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Newport

Date: 1854
Description: This map is ink and watercolor on tracing cloth and shows lot and block numbers, streets, a park, and depots. Some lots are colored red or blue and some in...
Historical Essay

Bailey, Col. Joseph (1826-1867)

Wisconsin Civil War Officer, Lumberman
Brief biography of Col. Joseph Bailey, the lumberman famous for his creative application of dams during the failed Civil War Red River Campaign of 1864.
Property Record

1450 STATE HIGHWAY 13

Community: Newport
County: Columbia
Historic Name: Raymond House
Reference Number: 16879
Property Record

E SIDE OF PETERSON RD, .25 M S OF US HIGHWAY 16

Community: Newport
County: Columbia
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 3427
Property Record

STATE HIGHWAY 13, N 9888, 1/3 M E OF STATE HIGHWAY 13, .5 M N OF WISCONSIN DELLS

Community: Newport
County: Columbia
Historic Name: Upham, Horace A.J., (Camp Wabeek) House
Reference Number: 6072

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