CEMETERY INDEXES (Houston County)
Houston County's 152 burial sites, stone recordings done in 1976 with some updated and some on computer; organized by township.
Also have Allamakee Co., IA, book
Winona County, MN, book
Winneshiek Co., IA, book
La Crescent, MN, Prospect Hill Cemetery original record books often giving date and place of birth and sometimes names of a relative.

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MANUSCRIPTS & PUBLIC RECORDS COLLECTIONS

Public Records
Houston Co. Alien Registration Forms, 1918 (1 roll microfilm);
Houston Co. District Court Naturalizations, 1854-1943 (4 rolls microfilm);
Tax records 1861-1900 (personal property & real estate) on microfilm; 1901-present, organized by township; tax records before 1900 as well as samples every ten years (1900, 1910, etc.) are at the Minnesota Historical Society;
9 shoebox size boxes of tax receipts, 1863-1930;
Land records (microfilm):
   grantor indexes, 1854-1888
  grantee indexes, 1857-1888
  deeds, 1852-1919 (no mortgage records);
Probate & Will records:
  probate records index, 1860-1892
  probate records, nos. 1-2150, latest March 1917
  wills, 1884-1919 (each book indexed);
World War I Draft Registrations (microfilm).

Manuscripts--Church Records
Caledonia, Brownsville and Houston Episcopal Churches, 1864-1924;

Caledonia Presbyterian Church, 1859-1958;

German Lutheran Church at Brownsville (later United Church of Christ; currently Zion Evangelical Church) photostats; many records in German:
  baptism, 1863-1939
  marriage, 1870-1878
  burial, 1888-1939
  list of confirmands and communicants;

Hokah Presbyterian Church, 1868-1944; microfilm;

Hokah United Church of Christ (formerly Evangelical and Reformed; currently Community Church); photostats; some records in German; earliest record book, 1872-1892;

Hokah United Methodist Church (formerly German Methodist Episcopal; some records in German) original record books:
  baptism, 1881-1991
  marriage, 1882-1992
  death, 1919-1990, some earlier deaths in membership records
  membership lists beginning in 1858 (some records are from other churches on the circuit: Pine Creek, Crooked Creek and Union);

Hope Presbyterian Church, Union Township: (microfilm)
  session minutes and lists of members, 1894-1942;

La Crescent Presbyterian Church, 1859-1958 (microfilm);

Money Creek Baptist Church, 1854-1928 (mostly minutes; a few deaths)

Oak Ridge Lutheran Church (records in paper), 1895-1944; this is the church that was dismantled and rebuilt in Norway as an example of an immigrant church in America;

Sheldon Presbyterian Church, 1860-1963 (microfilm):
  session minutes and church registers;

South Ridge United Methodist Church (formerly Evangelical and United Brethren) photostats of earliest record book:
  baptism, 1940-1987
  marriage, 1897-1998
  burial, 1898-1990 (burial records contain early birth dates)
  membership and officer lists;

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America records, some in Norwegian, all on microfilm:
  Central Lutheran in Winona, 1873-1922; 1871-1917 (reel 73)
  Cedar Valley Lutheran in Houston, 1870-1945 (reel 73)
  Wilmington Lutheran, 1892-1917 (reel 73)
  Immanuel Lutheran in Caledonia (reel 73)
  Trinity Lutheran in Spring Grove, 1857-1861; 1891-1920 (reel 74); 1857-1861; 1891-1920 (reel 75)
  Faith Lutheran in Black Hammer (reel 74); 1895-1982 (reel 75); 1858-1881 (reel 76)
  Cross of Christ Lutheran in Houston, 1854-1917; 1862-1918 (reel 76)
  St. Peter's Lutheran in Houston, 1858-1910; 1851-1909 (reel 76); includes records of the Stone Church, the oldest Lutheran Church building in Minnesota
  Our Savior's Lutheran in Riceford, 1881-1981 (reel 76)
  La Crosse Pastoral Conference, 1870-1889 (reel 41)
  First Lutheran in Onalaska, 1870-1900 (reel 41);
  also many church records from Lutheran churches in Iowa and North Dakota.

Civil War Records of Houston County by David Klinski: 8 years of intensive research filed by township. These include veterans of War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Mexican War and Spanish American War as well as Civil War.

Photographs
16,000 photographs arranged by subject and by family collections (can copy or scan)
4660 negatives organized plus many more; many glass negatives

NEWSPAPER INDEXES
Vertical files are maintained for clippings, ephemera, genealogy & family history and obituaries. These are accessed through a card file; copy facilities available.

Caledonia, Houston Co., MN
   Caledonia Elementary
   Caledonia High School


   Loretto High School (Catholic)
   Class Yearbook: 1930, 1939, 50 year    class reunion
   1944-1994 (biographical)

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1908, 1912, 1924, 1940, 1942, 1947, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1963-1971, 1973-1976, 1981
1937, 1944, 1947
1994