Roberts History Room
Hazel Mackin Public Library

The Roberts History Room has a varied collection of our past.  It contains plat maps, some family histories, photos, trinkets of past businesses, articles, yearbooks, historical artifacts, history books, Centennial plates, pamphlets, scrap books and an assortment of other material from by-gone days.  It also houses The Hennessey Collection of Civil War books.

Roberts history can be explored at the Hazel Mackin Public Library.

Phone: 715-749-3849
Email: petejclose@gmail.com  (local historian)

Hazel Mackin Public Library History Room
Hazel Mackin Public Library History Room
Hemp Mill - Located one mile east of Roberts and operated in the 1920's.
District 6 Graded School (the Village school). (circa 1910)
Roberts Main St. - Looking west.
O. D. Sanford - O. D. Sanford, who built the first drug store in Roberts. He also built a grain mill that was powered by a huge windmill, which was the first thing people saw as they approached Roberts by train in 1875.

Hazel Mackin Public Library History Room
Hazel Mackin Public Library History Room
Hemp Mill - Located one mile east of Roberts and operated in the 1920's.
District 6 Graded School (the Village school). (circa 1910)
Roberts Main St. - Looking west.
O. D. Sanford - O. D. Sanford, who built the first drug store in Roberts. He also built a grain mill that was powered by a huge windmill, which was the first thing people saw as they approached Roberts by train in 1875.