Winona Covers

For Sinclair 2010 I am posting a few Winona, Minnesota covers. I have a boatload of the one to S. C. White in Winona. That one is not a Winona cancel

The Winona post office was opened in 1852, two years before it became the county seat of Winona County. It was previously part of Fillmore county, which was split off from Wabashaw county a year or two before. Wabashaw county was one of the original nine counties in the Minnesota territory.

Edit: I believe the machine cancel is a Columbia Postal Machine cancel. (I picked one up much like it this weekend).

Another interesting Winona cover.

The first machine cancel is a Columbia model K8A (1913-17)
The flag is American Postal Mach. model B14 (1898-1910)