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Winona County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, its population was 49,671. [1] Its county seat is Winona. [2] Winona County comprises the Winona, MN Micropolitan Statistical Area.
- History of Winona, Minnesota
The earliest evidence of human habitation in Winona County...
- Winona, Minnesota
Winona (/ w ɪ n ˈ oʊ n ə / win-OH-nə) is a city in and the...
- Winona County History Center
The Winona County History Center, located in Winona,...
- History of Winona, Minnesota
The earliest evidence of human habitation in Winona County is based on the discovery of a Woodland period site (circa 800 B.C.-900 A.D.). Winona was platted and settled in 1851. The railroad crossing of the Mississippi by bridge happened in 1871.
Winona (/ w ɪ n ˈ oʊ n ə / win-OH-nə) is a city in and the county seat of Winona County, Minnesota, United States. [7] Located in bluff country on the Mississippi River, its most noticeable physical landmark is Sugar Loaf. The population was 25,948 at the 2020 census. [5]
The Winona County History Center, located in Winona, Minnesota, is made up of two buildings, the historic Winona Armory and the modern Laird Norton Addition. The Winona County Historical Society was established in 1935, and moved into the 1915 Winona Armory in 1973 and added the Laird Norton Addition in 2010.
Aug 29, 2024 · Welcome to Winona County Historical Society! Our city and county derived their names from “Winuŋna” (wee-NEW-nuh), a Dakota descriptive word meaning “first-born who is a daughter.”. Over the centuries, writers recorded the name as Wenonah, Weenona, and Wynona.
One of Minnesota's few surviving remnants of a river town's original business district—with 14 contributing properties on one block mostly built in the late 1860s—and a symbol of Winona's swift growth as a lumber and grain center.
Jan 6, 2009 · History of Winona County by Hill, H. H., and company, Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
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