Local History

The Monroe Public Library offers a variety of resources to help you explore your family history.  We have access to both print and electronic resources.

Our collection includes some of the following items to help you on your quest:

Local History Books – including a selection of personal family histories

School Yearbooks

City Directories

Cemetery Directories

Microfilm of Local Newspapers and Census Records

Pamphlets and Photographs

Also see our database page for access to Ancestry and HeritageQuest!

Digitized County History Books
History of Green County, Wisconsin / by Helen M. Bingham
Burdick & Armitage, printers, 1877.

Go to the beginning of the book.
Go to the electronic Table of Contents to the book.

History of Green County, Wisconsin. Together with biographies of representative citizens. History of Wisconsin, embracing accounts of the Pre-historic races, and a brief account of its territorial and state governments.
Union Pub. Co, 1884.

Go to the beginning of the book.
Go to the electronic Table of Contents to the book.