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Census
  • Federal (Wright County): 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930.
  • Minnesota (Wright County): 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905.
  • Agricultural (Wright County): 1860, 1870, 1880.
Newspapers
  • Annandale -Advocate: 1946-1973
  • Buffalo - Journal: 1888-1903, 1906-1930
  • Buffalo - Wright County Journal Press: 1930-1973
  • Cokato - Observer: 1889-1891*
  • Cokato - Commoner: 1892-1896*
  • Cokato - Enterprise: 1896-1986*
  • Cokato/Dassel - Enterprise Dispatch: 1987-2018*
  • Howard Lake - Herald: 1881-1974
* The Cokato Museum has extensive people and business indexes of Cokato newspapers, 1889-present.
Church Microfilm Records
The Cokato Museum has microfilm records from the following area churches:
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cokato
  • Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church (Cokato Twp.)
  • Grace Lutheran Church (French Lake Twp.)
  • Immanual Lutheran Church (French Lake Twp.)
  • Kingston Apostolic Lutheran Church (Kingston)
  • North Crow River (Knapp) Lutheran Church
  • Our Saviour's Lutheran Church (French Lake Twp.)
  • Redeemer Lutheran Church (Kingston)
  • Stockholm Lutheran Church (Stockholm Twp.)
(NOTE: These records vary in depth and quality, please contact the museum for specific information)

Note: Not all editions are complete, some pages are illegible.

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Cemetery Records
  • Albion Evangelical Free Church - Headstone listing
  • Bethel Norwegian Luth. Church ("Melquist Cemetery") - Headstone map and burial records.
  • Cokato Village - Lot registry and headstone map
  • Cokato Evangelical Luth. Church - Lot registry and headstone map
  • Cokato (nee First) Baptist Church - Headstone listing and partial lot registry
  • Crow River Mission (aka Birch Lake) - Headstone listing
  • Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church - Headstone listing
  • French Lake Mission - Grave listing
  • Grace Lutheran Church (French Lake Township) - Grave listing
  • Immanuel Lutheran Church - Grave listing
  • Meeker County, Minnesota, Cemeteries (two vol.)
  • North Crow River (aka Knapp) Lutheran Church - Grave listing
  • Our Savior's Lutheran Church - Grave listing
  • Riverside Cemetery of French Lake (aka Sikkala Cemetery) - Grave listing
  • Saint Ignatius Catholic Church (French Lake Township) - Headstone listing (not complete)
  • Stockholm Cemeteries (Stockholm Luth. Church & Stockholm Twp.)
  • Sunset Cemetery (French Lake Township) - Grave listing
  • Sylvan Cemetery (Middleville Township) - Headstone listing
  • "Watson" Cemetery (Section 26, Cokato Township) - Headstone listing
Church Histories
The Cokato Museum has directories, anniversary books, etc., from the following area churches:
  • First Baptist Church (Cokato)
  • Elim Mission Church (Cokato)
  • North Crow River Lutheran Church (Knapp)
  • Stockholm Lutheran Church (Stockholm)
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cokato)
  • French Lake Lutheran Church (South Haven)
  • Albion Evangelical Free Church (Albion)
  • Our Saviour's Lutheran Church (French Lake)
  • Immanuel Lutheran Church (French Lake)
  • Cokato Laestadian Congregation (Stockholm)
  • Ostmark Lutheran Church (Watkins)
  • Gethsemane & Swan Lake Lutheran (Dassel)

Church Microfilm Records:
See above section on our microfilm.

Yearbooks & Indexes

  • Aurora (Cokato High School): 1922-1924, 1928, 1930, 1934.
  • Cardinal (CHS): 1936, 1938, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958-1972.
  • Charger (Dassel-Cokato H.S.): 1974-2008.
  • Dassel-Cokato Middle School: 1991-1994, 1996-2000, 2002, 2004.
  • Cokato Elementary School: 1988-1990, 1992, 1996-1997, 2001-2013.
Indexes
  • Complete index of all Cokato Newspapers, 1889-Present
  • Name and Subject index to Cokato's First Century
  • Name index of History of Wright County
  • Wright County Marriages, 1860-1885

City & Town Records

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VILLAGE RECORDS (Cokato)
  • Judicial Dockets: 1884-1936 (Eight volumes total; Incomplete)
  • Birth Records: 1884-1959 (Those recorded at Cokato City Hall only)
  • Death Records: 1885-1959 (Those recorded at Cokato City Hall only)

TOWNSHIP RECORDS
The museum has on microfilm birth and death records from the following area townships:
  •    French Lake
  •    Cokato
  •    Stockholm
Please note these records run from about 1871 - 1950 and are not complete.

Plat Maps & Directories

COUNTY PLAT MAPS
  • Wright County: 1879, 1901, 1914-1915, 1930-1932, 1942, 1952, 1956, 1962, 1996, 1999, 2002
  • McLeod County: 1955
  • Meeker County: 1897, 1907, 1913, 1941, 1950, 1952, 1959, 1965,1983
DIRECTORIES
  • Cokato area (including Knapp and Stockholm): 1906, 1909-1911, 1916, 1927, 1929-1930
  • Howato Telephone (Cokato, Howard Lake and Knapp): 1932, 1935, 1937, 1940, 1945, 1947, 1949-1950
  • Pioneer Telephone: (Cokato, Dassel, and Howard Lake): 1951, 1953-1954, 1956-1958, 1960-1968
  • United Telephone (Cokato, Dassel, Grove City and Howard Lake): 1968-1982, 1990-2012

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