A favorite snack in 1938 was the potato chip. It was new! It satisfied the urge to crunch something, and it was tasty, too! The Red Dot company helped develop the perfect chip potato.
The elegant Hotel Wausau, built in 1925, was a boon to the local area for several decades.
A donation of six bottles from Marathon City Brewery helps tell the story of beer brewing in central Wisconsin. 
Ellerman Dairy operated near Athens during the 1950s. Do you have any stories?
Curators found a button in our artifact collection, and wondered what its story was.
A picture from the 1932 Wisconsin Valley Fair reveals an usual time in the musical history of Marathon County. For six years, this group of young women challenged traditional roles for female music, by performing across Central Wisconsin using the saxophone.
