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37 unusual facts about Winona


Abner Lewis

In 1856 Lewis moved to Winona, Minnesota, where he practiced law and was active in several businesses, including the city's transit railroad.

Abner Lewis (August 17, 1801 -- October 12, 1879) was a U.S. Representative, judge and attorney from Jamestown, New York and Winona, Minnesota.

Bill Barich

Bill Barich (born 1943 in Winona, Minnesota) is an American writer.

Carl Ruggles

This led him to Winona, Minnesota, to work for the Mar D'Mar School of Music as a violin teacher.

Curtis Flowers

Flowers was accused of shooting the owner and three workers at Tardy, a Winona furniture store from which he had been recently fired, on July 16, 1996.

Eliza Ann Youmans

Eliza Ann Youmans (born in Greenfield, New York, 17 December 1826; died in Winona, Minnesota, 27 September 1914) wrote books, mainly on botanical subjects.

Garrett Heath

Garrett Heath is an elite American middle-distance and distance runner from Winona, Minnesota who represented the U.S. national team at the 2010 World Indoor Champions where he finished 7th in the metric mile.

George P. Wilson

He settled in Winona, Minnesota and read law in the offices of Lewis & Simpson and William Mitchell, a former justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, before being admitted to the bar at Rochester in October 1862.

Harrington Mansion and Events Center

Based in Winona, Minnesota, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota expanded its educational programs to serve the Twin Cities community by establishing a Minneapolis campus in 1983, located at 2500 Park Avenue South, less than one block from the Harrington estate.

Howard Mitcham

James Howard Mitcham (1917 in Winona, Mississippi – August 22, 1996 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was an American artist, poet, and cook best known for his books on Louisiana's Creole and Cajun cuisines and that of New England, with an emphasis on seafood.

Jerry Seeman

Later, while attending Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, he played quarterback for three years and played basketball for two years before graduating in 1957 with a degree in mathematics.

John G. McMynn

In 1861, he moved to Winona, Minnesota to help set up the first normal school in Minnesota now Winona State University.

John H. Hoffman

John Hoffman received his bachelor's degree from St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota and continued his education at the University of Minnesota under the mentorship of Professor A. O. C. Nier who pioneered the field of mass spectrometry.

Jozef Cieminski

His first parish assignment transferred him to Saint Stanislaus Kostka in the newly established Diocese of Winona, where he served as assistant to the pastor, Father Jakub W.J. Pacholski.

Józef Franciszek Darzyn Ciemiński (Borzyszkowy, 4 August 1867-Winona, 1959) was a Polish-born Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota.

Judith A. Ramaley

On July 18, 2005 Ramaley began her service as the 14th president of Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota.

Kościerzyna

During the Kashubian diaspora, many families from Kościerzyna such as the Mrozeks, the Pellowskis and the Eichmans emigrated to the area of Winona, Minnesota in the United States, beginning in the late 1850s.

Leśno, Chojnice County

During the Kashubian diaspora, many families from Leśno such as the Bambenek (Bambeneks) and the Stoltmann (Sztoltmans), Spierewka (Sprouffske), Bielawa emigrated to the area of Winona, Minnesota in the United States, beginning in the late 1850s.

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers

He married twice; first on September 7, 1887 to Louisa Bennett Wilson of Winona, Minnesota, who died on December 20, 1897; and second in 1906 to Charlotte Josephine Lewis of Detroit, who survived him after his death, aged 51.

Ill health compelled him to rest, and as a result of travel to the Northwest he moved to Winona, Minnesota in October 1884.

March Rapids, Wisconsin

In late 1892 Thomas March sold the mill to Doud & Sons, a barrel-making enterprise with factories in Winona, Rudolph and Pittsville.

Minnesota State Highway 43

A major project in the 1980s to rebuild Highway 43 from Interstate 90 to Winona as an expressway ran out of money.

Minnesota State Highway 43 is a highway in southeast Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 44 in Mabel and continues north to its northern terminus at the Wisconsin state line at Winona, where it becomes Wisconsin Highway 54 upon crossing the Mississippi River.

State Highway 43 serves as a north–south route between Mabel, Rushford, and Winona in southeast Minnesota.

Minnesota State Highway 76

Minnesota State Highway 76 is a highway in southeast Minnesota, which runs from Iowa Highway 76 at the Iowa state line (near Eitzen), and continues north to its northern terminus at its interchange with Interstate Highway 90 in Pleasant Hill Township near Winona.

Pine Creek, Wisconsin

Early in the 1860s, Kaszubian Polish and Bohemian immigrants living in Winona, Minnesota began buying land across the Mississippi River in Trempealeau County.

Skeleton tank

The Skeleton Tank was an experimental prototype tank built in 1918 by the Pioneer Tractor Company, Winona, Minnesota.

Smith Point Light

In 2005 Smith Point Light went up for auction under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act, and was purchased for $170,000 by David McNally, a builder from Winona, Minnesota.

Society of St. Pius X

The SSPX's main seminary is in Écône, Switzerland; others are located in the United States (Winona, Minnesota), France (Flavigny-sur-Ozerain), Germany (Zaitzkofen), Australia (Goulburn), and Argentina (La Reja).

Thomas H. Moodie

Thomas H. Moodie (May 26, 1878–March 3, 1948) was born in Winona, Minnesota.

A native of Winona, Minnesota, Thomas H. Moodie left school at the age of sixteen.

Wiele, Pomeranian Voivodeship

During the Kashubian diaspora, many families from Wiele emigrated to the area of Winona, Minnesota in the United States, beginning in the late 1850s.

William A. Thompson

In 1896 he moved to La Crosse, and was appointed the Assistant Engineer in charge of the improvements on the Mississippi River from Winona, Minnesota to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

William Aden French

His novels include: Driftwood of the Current (1942), the story of the disastrous Winona flood of 1895; Oakley of the Ozarks (1942), a tale of young love among the hills and valleys; Wrestling the Wilderness (1943) a drama set in the north woods of Maine; and Strength of the Hills (1944), a drama set around the development of a copper mine in Shannon County.

William B. Mitchell

Instead of remaining in Virginia, however, the two headed west, settling in the city of Winona, then in the Territory of Minnesota.

Winona, Ontario

Years later, he moved on to teaming up with Murray McLauchlan ("Down by the Henry Moore"), Marc Jordan (Marina del Rey) and Cindy Church and released a live CD and DVD of a performance titled, Lunch at Allen's.

On January 1, 1974, it became part of the New Town of Stoney Creek.


Alberto Bimboni

He is remembered today, if at all, for his opera Winona; consequently, he is sometimes grouped with other composers of the Indianist movement in American music.

Armistice Day Blizzard

Casualties were lessened by the efforts of Max Conrad, a pioneering light plane pilot and one of his students (John R. Bean) both based in Winona, Minnesota, 25 miles upriver from La Crosse.

Basilica of Saint Stanislaus Kostka

The congregation dates back to April 2, 1871, when leaders of Winona's Kaszubian Polish community formally declared its intent to organize a parish under the patronage of St. Stanislaus Kostka.

Christina Tobin

She attended Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota where she served as varsity tennis captain and volunteered for Habitat for Humanity.

Francis Kelly

Francis Martin Kelly (1886–1950), third Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Winona

Hieronim Derdowski

Hieronim Derdowski (March 9, 1852, Wiele, Pomeranian Voivodeship, German Empire – August 13, 1902, Winona, Minnesota, USA) (Kashubian Hieronim Derdowsczi or Jarosz Derdowsczi), Kashubian-Polish intellectual and activist, was born to Kashubian parents in the Pomeranian village of Wiele.

Kelly J. Manahan

Her father is Ronald E. Manahan, President of Grace College and Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana.

Kim Winona

Born in Nebraska as Constance Elaine Mackey, Winona was 25 years old when she landed the role of Morning Star, the beautiful romantic interest of Larsen's title role of Brave Eagle on Brave Eagle.

Michael Joseph Hoeppner

He studied for the priesthood and continued his education with a JCL from St Paul's in Ottawa and a master's in Education from a Winona-area university.

Paul Breza

Paul Joseph Breza, Roman Catholic priest and Kashubian American activist, was born in Winona, Minnesota on June 23, 1937, the son of Joseph Peter and Alice Seraphine (Pehler) Breza, both of whom were descendants of Kashubian immigrants from Bytów, Poland.

Paul D. McNair

In 2006, McNair completed his course work for his Masters in Philanthropy & Development from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota in Winona.

Princess Winona

Princess Winona (Princess We-Noh-Nah) is the central Native American character in a "Lover's Leap" romantic legend set at Maiden Rock on the Wisconsin side of Lake Pepin in the United States.

Other locations with a similar legend include Winona Falls in Pennsylvania, Camden County, Missouri and Cameron Park in Waco, Texas.

Protein Information Resource

Dr. Winona Barker and Dr. Robert Ledley assumed leadership of the project after the untimely death of Dr. Dayhoff in 1983.

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Graduate and professional programs are offered at facilities in Winona, the Twin Cities, Rochester, Apple Valley, Minnetonka and Oakdale, Minnesota; and various course delivery sites around Minnesota and Wisconsin; Jamaica, and Nairobi, Kenya.

Wiele, Pomeranian Voivodeship

The most famous of Winona's immigrants from Wiele was Hieronim Derdowski, famed Kashubian poet and, after emigration to the United States, editor of the Winona Polish-language newspaper Wiarus.

Windom Township, Mower County, Minnesota

In May 1862 the township was named in honor of Senator William Windom of Winona.

After unsuccessfully trying two names, the township was named in honor of Senator William Windom of Winona.

Winona Lake, Indiana

The Winona School of Professional Photography was started there in 1912 (as the Indiana School of Photography) and was operated by the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) until its move to Chicago (Mount Prospect) in 1988.

WONA

WONA-FM, a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to Winona, Mississippi, United States