Recollection Wisconsin is a searchable digital collection of photographs, oral histories, maps, and documents. It contains records pertaining to Black Earth, such as this c1890 map of Oak Hill Cemetery. Begun in 2005, Recollection Wisconsin is a collaborative digitization program from the Black Earth Historical Society, Black Earth Public Library, Wisconsin Library System, Wisconsin Historical Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee Public Museum, Wisconsin Department of Public Instructions, and the Nicholas Family Foundation.

-Battle of Wisconsin Heights-Native American resistance to settlers' land acquisition
-Native American trail marker trees and trails made into roadways
-Significance and preservation of Native American mounds
-Families, marriages, home life, temperance
-Return of Native Americans to ancestral lands after removal
-Cultural significance, lead mining, pow wows in Blue Mounds
-Land claims of Native Americans and settlers
-Geographic corridor between the Wisconsin River and Blue Mounds
-Native American foods and medicines adopted by settlers
For more information, please click here: Ancestral Land Project

Enter Black Earth, Wisconsin in the search box on the home page and see what you'll find: photographs, maps, newspaper clips, including this postcard of Ulra Deloss Wood, Civil War G.A.R. veteran, Co. C, 50th New York Regiment ca 1890s.  Photograph by George Lindsey of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.