• Biographical records of early Fairwater area residents taken from popular books, such as The History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin (Western Historical Company, Chicago: 1880). These biographies were based on personal narratives and may not be entirely accurate.

Robert C. Abercrombie | Deacon Josiah Batson | Albert Bonesteel | Harris Brown | J. H. Brown | Jacob Carter | Franklin Collins | William Dakin | Asa Holmes | N. C. Hurlburt |  H. Kath | Townsend Miller | Fernando Newland | Captain William Plocker | George F. Pond | James B. Pond | Woodbridge O. Sleeper 

• Florian Laper's John C. Laper chronology and Jesse W. Laper biography, including history and  photographs of Fairwater and vicinity from the end of the Nineteenth Century.
  
• Two brief autobiographical sketches written by Sophie Simmons Hansen. Sophie Simmons was born in Denmark in 1855 and emigrated to Fairwater with her family in 1866.
  
• Reverend Hiram McKee, Metomen resident and participant in Ripon's Booth War, 1860
  
• Life Story of Manus Veenendaal, his own history
  
• Town of Metomen biographies
• Town of Alto biographies
• Markesan and Green Lake County biographies

Gazetteers

• Fairwater gazetteer entries, 1865-1926

Newspapers

• Fairwater Clippings
  Fairwater area items from Fairwater, Brandon, Markesan, Ripon, and other newspapers:

Fairwater Collections Indexes

• The Fairwater Register
  Fairwater's only newspaper was published every Friday from 1903 to 1905 by E. L. Howe. Fragments from those 104 issues have been transcribed.

The Fairwater Register

• Topical Collections from Area Newspapers
  Ripon's Booth War, 1860 (Ripon Times)
  Ripon's Booth War, 1860 (Waupun Times)
  James Pond's Editorials (Markesan Journal, 1861)
  The John Parker Exchanges, 1861 (Markesan Journal)
  Creation of the Brandon-Markesan Railroad, 1882 (Brandon Times)
  Creation of the Brandon-Markesan Railroad, 1883-84 (Green Lake County Democrat)

Local Documents

• Village Board Records
• 75th Anniversary Booklet, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1947

Maps

• Commissioner of Public Lands Survey Map for the Town of Metomen, 1834 (State Historical Society Archives microfilm)
• Plat Map Town of Metomen, 1862 (PDF format), from W. T. Coneys, Map of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Bogert & Haight: 1862 (Copied and indexed by Sally Powers Albertz, Wisconsin State Historical Society Library Pam 93-3904 Mss Sect)
• Plat Map, Village of Fairwater, 1874, from Harney and Tucker, Illustrated Atlas Map of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Chicago: Lakeside Pub. and Print Co., 1874 (Wisconsin State Historical Society Library microfilm P72-1175)
• Plat Map, Village of Fairwater, 1893, from C. M. Foote and J. W. Henion, Plat Book of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Minneapolis: C. M. Foote & Co., 1893 (Wisconsin State Historical Society Library microfilm P72-1172)
• Plat Map, Village of Fairwater, 1910, from Plat Book of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
• Towne Miller's Map, Village of Fairwater, 1924, adapted from the original map displayed in the Fairwater Civic Center

See Also:

• For the Holidays:

1950 Public School Christmas Program
1951 Public School Christmas Program
1952 Public School Christmas Program

• Fairwater Writings