View rotating local history displays in History Hall at the library, pictured above. Current exhibits highlight the history of the Waunakee Airport, Veterans of Waunakee, and the Waunakee Public Library!
Historic Photos
View over 2,200 photos of historic Waunakee in our digital collection.
Recollection Wisconsin
Discover photos, maps, books, artifacts, oral histories and more from dozens of Wisconsin libraries, archives, historical societies and museums.
How We Got Here
Watch a fascinating video about Waunakee's immigration stories. Through a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, WPL interviewed community members about where their families originated, how they came to the United States, and how they became part of Waunakee.
Newspaper Archive
Wisconsin Historical Society Family History Records
Family history research records from the Wisconsin Historical Society records available on Ancestry.
Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers
Full-text daily and weekly Wisconsin newspapers from 2005 to 60 days ago, plus newspapers from the 1800s and 1900s.
Digital Collections
Note: the village of Waunakee is located within Westport township
Westport Township 1861 (Waunakee was not a village until 1871, but "LESTER P.O." includes the area of present-day Waunakee)
Westport Township 1873 (Waunakee on pg 19, Westport on pg 36)
Westport Township 1911 (see index for photographs of Dane county schoolhouses and list of merchants in 1911)