Wayne A. Guyant's History and Memories : Portage County, Belmont Township, originally published in 1984-86 by the author in Waupaca, has been digitized by the Portage County Public Library with the permission of Alta E. Guyant.  Funding for the project was provided by a grant from the Portage County Public Library Foundation, Inc. The digitization contractor was Northern Micrographics. Project managers for the Portage County Public Library were Deborah McCabe and Robert J. Stack. Web hosting and file and server maintenance are provided by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point University Library.

Wayne and Alta Guyant are well-known to local historians as the authors of the Index of the Cemeteries of Portage County [Stevens Point: Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society, [19??], which is housed at the Portage County Public Library.  The index, completed by the Guyants in the mid1970s, has been updated through 1999 and is available on the Web at http://library.uwsp.edu/cemetery/.

This is the second in the series of local histories published as e-books by the Portage County Public Library.  In 2002, Malcolm Rosholt's classic history of Portage County, Our County, Our Story, was released.

Click here to access the Electronic text of History and Memories.