Mail-Order Book Store
The Beloit Historical Society offers a selection of books to purchase. Below are the current selection of books for sale.
Counts are as of July 1, 2021.
Make checks payable to Beloit Historical Society and mail to:
Beloit Historical Society
845 Hackett St.
Beloit WI 53511
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| 75th Commemoration of the End of World War II Booklet | ||
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New! A 40-page booklet containing the names of World War II veterans interred at Eastlawn Cemetery, pictures, biographies and a map of interment locations is available for you to do a self-guided tour on a day of your choice. Order a copy of the booklet here for a donation amount of your choice. |
Donation of your Choice |
| Beloit High School Yearbooks | ||
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Below you can find a complete list of available yearbooks and their quantities we currently have. Contact us today if you'd like to order a yearbook from Beloit High School's past! |
$25.00
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| The Crusader | ||
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Beloit Catholic High School Yearbook. |
$25.00
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| Beloit City Directories | ||
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Below you can find a complete list of available city directories from Beloit's past. |
$25.00
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| Beloit: A River Runs Through It | ||
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New Title! A tour book of Beloit history along the Rock River. The 56 page book features 17 locations, their history as well as historical and current pictures. Researched and written by Carol Mankiewicz in association with the Beloit Historical Society. |
$10.00plus
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| The Round Barn, Vol. 1 | ||
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9 remaining! Once the model of efficiency and industry, the round barn is fading away along with the small family farm. The first of a series of three about the Dougan family farm, volume one gives a picture of family life in rural America. Each volume is subdivided into "books" and the first volume addresses the silo and the barn, the milk house, and the milk route. If a small family farm was in your past or you just want to know what life on a family farm was like, you will enjoy this series. (Illustrated, black and white, 540 pages, $25.00) |
$25.00plus
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| The Round Barn, Vol. 2 | ||
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Only 2 remaining! Volume two focuses on farming in general-crops, hired help, the big house, the development of hybrid seed corn, and the start of artificial insemination. By staying in touch with the University of Wisconsin, the owners of the Dougan farm were able to couple scientific methods and farming. A feel for the transition of society from rural to industrial is told in stories, recollections, and personal experiences. (Illustrated, b & w, 490 pages, $25.00) |
$25.00plus
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| The Round Barn, Vol. 3 | ||
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Only 2 remaining! Following life on the Dougan farm -- its people and their stories-- and developments in agriculture from 1900 to 1970. The stories chronicle a way of life that has, in various parts of the country, either waned, vastly changed, or even ended. Volume Three depicts the farm's effect on the world and the world's effect on the farm. (Illustrated, b & w, 475 p. $25.00) |
$25.00plus
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| The Round Barn, Vol. 4 | ||
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Only 2 remaining! While still detailing intimate farm stories, the story now expands to chronicle the farm's influence on the community, the state, the nation, and the world. As society continues to develop it not only mechanizes (some might say, depersonalizes) the farm, it competes with it for other means of land usage. So while the farm remains relevant it must be carefully protected and preserved. (Illustrated, b & w, 462 p. $25.00) |
$25.00plus
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| With One Shot | ||
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Only 2 remaining! Based on true events, author Dorothy Marcic (niece of slain Beloit police officer, LaVerne Stordock) goes beyond the seemingly closed case with the confession of Stordock's 2nd wife, Suzanne, to seek the truth. Two years later, her investigation uncovers a trail of secrets and unmet justice to the truth behind a family tragedy. (Illustrated, b & w, 352 pages, $16.00) |
$16.00plus
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| Growing Up in Beloit | ||
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Temporarily Sold Out! Robert Burdick's Growing Up in Beloit, serves as both an homage to coming of age in a gentler era, and as a poignant love letter to his beloved Midwestern hometown. In a lively narrative, Burdick brings to life the universal exuberance and industry of youth, from comic adventures, pranks, and pratfalls, to the more serious business of navigating academics at school and experiencing hard work at a vareity of jobs. His vivid descriptions of daily life in Beloit, Wisconsin in the 1940s and 1950s will appeal to locals interested in community history...and to anyone yearning to slip back in time for an amiable visit with a likeable young man. |
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| South Beloit - 100 years | ||
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Celebrating 100 years of South Beloit history, this volume written by John Patrick and Diana Lukich, details the early (native american) inhabitants and settlers, notable figures, historic buildings, organizations and events. Present day organizations, churches, and businesses are also described. 128 pages; b&w and color photos; published by the South Beloit Historical Society. |
$20.00plus
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| Permanent Reminder Calendar | ||
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Even your digitized information sometimes requires a paper back up. With this permanent reminder calendar from BHS (the "Centennial Chronical of Remembrances" - 1910- 2010 - they didn't have spellcheck back then) you can keep track of all the important dates and take a stroll down memory lane at the same time. |
$5.00plus
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| Pioneer Beloit | ||
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NEW, Sesquicentennial edition! In Part I, the story of the Turtle Village during the last years of Indian occupancy and the Black Hawk War, the coming of the trader-trapper Joseph Tebo, and the determined efforts of Caleb Blodgett, Dr. Horace White, and a few score friends and neighbors to carve out a New England-type village at the confluence of Rock River and Turtle Creek during the first two years after their arrival. A painstaking reconstruction of life as it was actually lived at New Albany, later Beloit, almost on a day-to-day basis, gathered from pioneer documents, some newly discovered, others long-since forgotten. In Part II, the chronological story of a century-old dispute over who named Beloit, what year it was named, and how the name was actually arrived at. The author reviews a fascinating controversy extending over several generations that at times assumed the proportions of a scandal, involving the veracity of several distinguished first settlers. By carefully marshalling all the pertinent evidence available, the author frees the record as much as possible from obvious historical errors and needless confusion, before summing up the evidence dealing with the mystery of Beloit's naming. Written between 1830-1839, the book contains 44 illustrations |
$5.00plus
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| Sparks from the Flaming Wheel - Used Condition | ||
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Only 4 USED copies remaining! A collection of personal reminiscences by scores of contributors, "Sparks" is a unique document of Beloit history. Essays range from memories of local business and industry to recollections of family and childhood, and the volume is full of archival photographs. The editor Joseph Rhodes is past curator of the Beloit Historical Society, long-time educator and community leader. |
$10.00plus
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| History of the Beloit Fire Department 1854-1982 | ||
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It has been 128 years since fire raged through several mercantile buildings on Turtle (now State) Street in the young and growing settlement of Beloit. Though there must have been earlier fires, the burning of E. D. Murray's store prompted the weekly Beloit Journal to comment on the "utter foolishness of the village to remain so long without necessary means of extinguishing fires and preventing their extension." Whereupon, A. J. Battin, a former New York City fireman, organized a drive to raise money to buy the city its first "water witch" fire wagon and recruited a company of volunteers. That was Beloit's first "fire department." Not until 30 years later did the city have a central water system. And not until 1887 was the first paid force of firefighters established. This book traces the history of Beloit's battle against fire. It is a story of the fire service from that beginning in 1854 to . . . [1982.] and it is a chronicle of the major fires dating back to the one that broke out the night of April 6, 1854, at the rear of E. D. Murray's store, supposedly the work of arsonists. The story of firefighters, the fire apparatus, the firehouses, and the fires in Beloit's history might never have been so completely and accurately recorded, had it not been for Herbert V. (Christy) Christiansen. He was Beloit's 10th fire chief [under a paid department] and he retired in 1979. Bill Behling, from the introduction |
$20.00plus
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| Taming The Blue | ||
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Only 9 remaining! About The Author |
$10.00plus
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| Sounds of Beloit | ||
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Only 10 remaining! This collection of articles appeared over a three year period in the Shopping News, they bore the title Remembering...because they recall a city and events almost forgotten, they are reprinted here for family, friends, and fellow Beloiters. |
$3.00plus
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| St. Jude Catholic Parish Centennial History Book 1908-2008 | ||
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Sold Out! One hundred years can mean as many changes in a church community as it does in the community at large. Growth is detailed in a succession of priests, nuns, organizations, schools, and outreach programs. The history of St. Jude is a corollary history of Beloit itself. |
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| Beloit Historic Survey August 1981 | ||
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A 1980 intensive survey revealed that Beloit had a number of historic structures in three historic districts (and 26 properties outside those districts) that were selected for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. The Survey describes (some with photos) those structures and lists the 26 additional sites, describing the architectural styles in use. 24 p., b & w photos, center map. |
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