Editing Winona, Minnesota (section)

==History==
{{Main|History of Winona, Minnesota}}

The site was of the village of Keoxa of [[Dakota people]].<ref name="H.H. Hill">{{cite book |title=History of Winona, Olmsted, and Dodge Counties Together with Biographical Matter Statistics, Etc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41FKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA352 |year=1884 |publisher=H.H. Hill |pages=352–}}</ref> The city is named after [[Winona (legend)|Winona]], a figure in a [[Sioux]] legend.<ref name="Porter">{{Cite web |last=Porter |first=Cynthya |date=February 1, 2009 |title=Homecoming To Explore Roles Of American Indian Women |url=https://diversityfoundation.org/HomecomingToExploreRoles.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |access-date= |website=Diversity Foundation |publisher=[[Winona Daily News]] (reprint) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727134057/https://diversityfoundation.org/HomecomingToExploreRoles.html}}</ref>

European immigrants settled the area in 1851 and laid out the town into lots in 1852 and 1853. The original settlers were immigrants from [[New England]].<ref name="Bennick2012">{{cite book |author=Walter Bennick |title=Winona |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xm34xgUa1wAC |year=2012 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-9425-5}}</ref><ref name="Minnesota: A State Guide page 263">Minnesota: A State Guide page 263</ref> The population increased from 815 in December 1855, to 3,000 in December 1856. In 1856, [[German American|German immigrants]] arrived as well.<ref name="Minnesota: A State Guide page 263"/> The Germans and the [[Yankee]]s worked together planting trees and building businesses based on lumber, wheat, steamboating and railroads. Between 1859 and 1900, some 5,000 [[Polish people|Poles]] and closely related [[Kashubians]] emigrated to Winona, making up one quarter of the population. Since 80% of them were Kashubians, Winona became known as the "Kashubian Capital of America". As a result of the influx of Polish [[Catholic]] immigrants, the [[Basilica of Saint Stanislaus Kostka|Church of St. Stanislaus (now Basilica of St. Stanislaus Kostka)]] was built.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bambenek.org/winona-2/kashubian-capital-of-america/ |title=Kashubian Capital of America – Bambenek.org |website=bambenek.org |language=en-US |access-date=July 21, 2017}}</ref> For a time, Winona had more millionaires than any other city of its size in the United States.<ref name="Minnesota: A State Guide page 263"/>

The railroad and [[steamboat]] transportation industries helped Winona grow into a small city that diversified into [[wheat]] milling, and lumber production. In 1856, more than 1,300 steamboats stopped at Winona.<ref name="MN1870">{{cite book |author=Andrist, Ralph K. |title=Life on the Mississippi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8RPSCwAAQBAJ&q=%22more+than+1,300+steamboats+stopped+at+Winona.%22&pg=PT81 |year=2016 |publisher=American Heritage and New Word City |isbn=9781612309491}}</ref> The [[Winona and St. Peter Railroad]] first segment of {{Convert|11|mi|km|abbr=}} from Winona to [[Stockton, Minnesota]] was completed by the end of 1862. Winona then had the second operational railroad in Minnesota, after the St. Paul and Pacific Line from [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]] to [[Saint Anthony Falls|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> In December 1870, the [[Mississippi River]] was bridged at Winona by the [[Winona Rail Bridge]].<ref name="hubbard">{{cite book |author=Hubbard, Lucius F. |title=Minnesota in Three Centuries: 1655-1908 1870 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W90UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA359 |year=1908 |publisher=Publishing Society of Minnesota |pages=359–}}</ref> In 1892, a [[wagon]] toll-bridge over the Mississippi, a steel high-bridge, was completed and remained in service until the opening of the [[Main Channel Bridge (Winona)|Main Channel Bridge]] in 1942.

Winona has two historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places that combine into a single local historic district administered by the city's Heritage Preservation Commission.

A [[bandshell]] was completed in 1924 for outdoor musical performances and events.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://winonamunicipalband.org/history/the-winona-lake-park-bandshell/ |title=The Winona Lake Park Bandshell |date=July 14, 2015 |website=Winona Municipal Band |language=en-US |access-date=February 15, 2019}}</ref> The Winona Municipal Band holds concerts there during the summer.
{{wide image|Valley of the Mississippi from Winona, Minn. c1898.jpg|700px|Valley of the Mississippi from Winona, c. 1898|alt=Valley of the Mississippi from Winona, c. 1898}}