Winona is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

in Fayette County,

West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the B ...

, United States. Winona is east of Fayetteville. Winona has a

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with ZIP code 25942. The community has the name of Winona Gwinn, the daughter of a settler. African-American historian

Carter G. Woodson Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He was one of the first scholars to study the h ...

taught at a school in Winona founded by black miners for their children from 1898–1900.Goggin, Jacqueline
Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History
p. 15 (1997)

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