Microfilm

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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.

Church

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

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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