Newspaper Articles - Connecting with our Past
The Capital Times invited Historic Madison to provide material for a weekly column
to acquaint its readers with historical tidbits about people, places, and things about Madison's past. It runs on Mondays in the Lifestyles section, under the heading "Connecting with our Past."

  • African American Mayoral Candidates
  • Atwood
  • Aviation
  • Barter
  • Boating in the Storm
  • Brooks House
  • Canal
  • Capitol Burned
  • Censorship
  • Cottagers
  • Dead Lake Ridge
  • Death Corner
  • Dudgeon
  • Electric Lights
  • Equal Opportunities
  • First Children
  • Football Fanatics
  • Garner Park
  • Gates of Heaven
  • Harvey Hospital marker
  • Heg Statue
  • Hollywood in Madison
  • Jefferson Davis and Madison
  • Lantry Mausoleum
  • Legislative Scandal
  • Madison in 1843
  • Mayor Sayle 1919
  • Morgan Downtown Memories
  • Nasty Elections
  • Original Names of the Four Lake Country
  • Owen Drive Rocks
  • Police Chief Henry Baker
  • Quann Park
  • Republicans
  • Roundy Coughlin
  • Shopping Centers
  • Slot Machines
  • St. James
  • State Street Houses
  • Sweets
  • The Perfect Mate
  • Thor's Beach
  • Tornado of 1878
  • Turville Point
  • West High School
  • Williamson Street
  • Angleworm Station
  • Autos
  • Badger Football 1905
  • Beach
  • Bridge Over Monona Bay
  • Camp Randall Prison Camp
  • Cannon
  • Capitol Collapse
  • Cigarettes
  • Crazy Man
  • Deadly Cannon
  • Dress Code
  • East Washington Avenue
  • Elmside
  • Fairchild Block Explosion
  • Flu
  • Forest Hill Cemetery
  • Gas Lights
  • Halloween Shenanigans
  • Haunted Madison Stoner House
  • Hired Girls
  • Iroquois Theater Fire
  • Jubilee
  • Larkin Street
  • Louise Marston
  • Man Behind the Field
  • Monona Lake Assembly
  • MPPDA
  • Olbrich
  • Orton Park
  • Pioneer Festival
  • Pump Carpenter
  • Railroad Stations
  • Resurrection Cemetery
  • School Violence
  • Shopping the Square 1899
  • Spooner
  • St. Raphael's Cathedral
  • Suburbs
  • Swimming
  • The Railroad Comes to Madison
  • Tobacco Sesquicentennial
  • Triathalon
  • Water Cure
  • Wild Youth
  • Woman's Club Building


  • Last updated on: 11/29/2005 Historic Madison, Inc.
    http://www.historicmadison.org/