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Archaeologists have said that humans may have lived in the Winona area as early as 9500 B.C. Winona was originally the village of Keoxa and was home to a Mdewakanton band of the eastern Sioux. Captain Orrin Smith founded Winona in 1851 and by 1856 was home to a population of 3,000.
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Winona was platted and settled in 1851. The railroad crossing of the Mississippi by bridge happened in 1871. Industrial development and the growth of the port ...
Winona is in Winona County Established February 23, 1854, this county was named for a Dakota woman, Winona, cousin of the last chief named Wabasha, ...
Winona's storied past as a Native American home centers on the tribe of Dakota Indians led by a succession of Chiefs Wapasha — a bloodline that still exists ...