Welcome to this Genealogy Trails website for Winona County Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! County Information Established February 23, 1854, this county was named for a Dakota woman, Winona, cousin of the last chief named Wabasha, both of whom were prominent in the events attending the removal in 1848, of the Winnebago Indians from Iowa to Wabasha's prairie (the site of the city of Winona) and thence to Long Prairie in Todd county. County Seat Winona Sugar Loaf mountain in the City of Winona in 1898 It was a limestone bluff that they quarried off for building material in the early days of the city. The quarry eventually closed and this is what's left of the bluff. [Many thanks to John Bauer for sending this in...] Townships Cities and Towns (and other populated areas) Source: GNIS Dresbach Township Elba Township Fremont Township Hart Township Hillsdale Township Homer Township Mount Vernon Township New Hartford Township Norton Township Pleasant Hill Township Richmond Township Rollingstone Township Saratoga Township St. Charles Township Utica Township Warren Township Whitewater Township Wilson Township Wiscoy Township Altura Beaver Bethany Centerville Clyde Crystal Spring Dakota Donehower Dresbach Elba Fremont Goodview Hart Homer Lamoille Lewiston Minneiska Minnesota City Morningside Terrace New Hartford Nodine Oakridge Pickwick Ridgeway Rollingstone Saint Charles Saratoga Stockton Sugarloaf Troy Utica Whitman Wilson Winona Witoka Wyattville  Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: May 2012: Bios: Amundson, Anderson, Bailey, Baumann, Baumgartner; Marriages: Snyder-Hendrickson, Von Wold-Uebel Apr. 2012: Bios: Dunn, Finkelnburg, Fitzpatrick, Fosnes, Garvin, Greer, Keyes, Rand, Mitchell, Morey, Stebbins, Stewart, Tawney, Tew, Van Sant, Webber, Windom, Yale Mar. 2012: Bios: Choate, Clark, Clarke, Coleman, Hamlin, Harrington, Shepard; Obits: Darmoan, Man, Murray, Palmer, Reifeldt, Slagge, Talbot, Wehrenberg, Wheeler Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; history: Winona Wagon Company; Bio: Dietze; Crime News: Lawler; Obit: Limpert Dec 2011: SCHOCK obits and 50th wedding anniversary news story; County History overview and the origin of the township and river names; List of Cemeteries; History of the Churchs of Winona; SCHOEWE death notice; obit for Kappauf, Meier, Van Schepen, BLECHINGER, TARBELL; BLECHINGER-GOODSELL; THIESFELDT-KOCH marriage announcements; engagement announcements for PROUDFOOT-HADSEK; marriage licenses for HANLEY-Van Schepen; Gossip/Visiting News; Sick List; Birth Announcement for MURPHY; Old Settlers Association Deaths for 1907-08 Previous Updates: Schouweiler Biography, Stewart-Hall Wedding, BAUER death records, marriage, birth, City history, Crime News Story for Callaghan, Memories of Growing Up in New Hartford, Death listing for Jacob DeWitt Merritt SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. 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