The city 575 feet below this bluff was founded in 1851 by Captain Orrin Smith on the site of ‘Keoxah’ the village of Sioux Indian Chief Wapasha and his band. First called Wabasha’s Prairie, it was later named Winona — from the Sioux . . . — — Map (db m56857) HM
Welcome to the Woodlawn Cemetery Potters' Field. "Potters' Field" is a historical designation, going back to the time of the Bible, when a field outside of the settlement was set aside to bury travelers and strangers to the community. A field used . . . — — Map (db m62641) HM
A courageous soldier and member of Ethan Allen’s immortal band of 83, who took part in the surprise attack on the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga, and the only Revolutionary soldier known to be buried in the State of Minnesota.
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"The crown of the majestic Sugar Loaf Bluff is disappearing before the strokes of the utilitarian quarrymen," editorialized the Winona Daily
Republican in 1886. "In a very few years that widely known landmark will be but a homely . . . — — Map (db m43176) HM
The three-story dwelling above was built in the 1850s as a second home of Willard Bradley and Matilda Desnoyer Bunnell, the first permanent residents of Winona County, who settled here in 1849. Bunnell, who traded with the Indians, was also a land . . . — — Map (db m206033) HM
Paul and Florence Watkins started construction of the Manor House in 1924, with completion in 1927. Paul was the nephew of J.R. Watkins, the founder of Watkins Products and became the company's second president in 1911. Paul and Florence traveled . . . — — Map (db m109644) HM
This anchor is from the Coast Guard cutter, Winona, which was commissioned on August 15, 1946. It was home ported most of its life at Port Angeles, Washington. It served part of the time on patrol in the Bering Sea and off the coast of Vietnam. . . . — — Map (db m126793) WM
Gift of W.J. Landon in memory of
Ida Cone Landon 1900
The Statuary grouping of We-No-Nah and its turtles and pelicans was erected in Central Park on August 26, 1902, and incorporated in Levee Plaza 1977.
We-No-Nah, meaning first born . . . — — Map (db m49941) HM
Winona County Courthouse Erected 1888
C. G. Maybury, Architect
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Winona Commission for the
Bicentennial of the Constitution 1987 — — Map (db m126794) HM
In memory of all Soldiers and Sailors of Winona County who fought in defence of their country Placed by the Wenonah Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1921 — — Map (db m164191) WM
Winona has been home to many peoples ever since the first Native Americans hunted mammoths and mastodons 12,000 years ago. The Dakota and Ho-Chunk lived here until the 1850s. The Dakota called it "Keoxa," or homeland. Their word . . . — — Map (db m80090) HM
