Editing Stockton, Minnesota (section)

==History==
Stockton was [[plat]]ted in 1856.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n601 584]}}</ref> The city was named after J. B. Stockton, an early landowner.<ref>{{cite news|title=Where Did Minnesota Towns Get Names? Most Colorful in U.S. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1637298/minnesota_town_names/|newspaper=The Winona Republican-Herald|date=July 12, 1949|page=15|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = January 24, 2015 }} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA127|year=1908|page=127}}</ref> A post office was established at Stockton in 1855, and remained in operation until 1959.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Winona | title=Winona County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=August 15, 2015}}</ref>  The city has one property listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], the 1859 [[Trinity Episcopal Church (Stockton, Minnesota)|Trinity Episcopal Church]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Minnesota National Register Properties Database |url=http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/nrhp/ |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |year=2009 |access-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref>
The [[Winona and St. Peter Railroad]] was founded in 1861 in [[Winona, Minnesota]]. The first 11 miles from Winona to Stockton were completed by the end of 1862, making it the second operational railroad in Minnesota, after the St Paul and Pacific Line from St. Paul to St. Anthony Falls.<ref name="NPSMN">Daniel R. Pratt, Andrew J. Schmidt, Andrea C. Vermeer, and Betsy H. Bradley - [https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/64501188.pdf Railroads in Minnesota, 1862-1956 MPS.] United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Aug 2002, St. Paul, MN [https://www.dot.state.mn.us/culturalresources/docs/rail/sectione.pdf Section E. Statement of Historic Contexts - I. Railroad Development in Minnesota, 1862-1956]</ref>