Ashton is an abandoned townsite in sections 11 and 12 of Pleasant Hill Township

Pleasant Hill Township, Minnesota

Pleasant Hill Township is a township in Winona County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 535 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.7 square miles , all of it land.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there...

 in Winona County

Winona County, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 49,985 people, 18,744 households, and 11,696 families residing in the county. The population density was 80 people per square mile . There were 19,551 housing units at an average density of 31 per square mile...

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Minnesota

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, United States

United States

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History

It was reportedly on or near present day County Road 12 about 1.5 miles east-north-east of Ridgeway

Ridgeway, Minnesota

Ridgeway is an unincorporated community located in Winona County, Minnesota at latitude 43.912 and longitude -91.56 . The elevation is 1,342 feet. Ridgeway appears on the Witoka U.S. Geological Survey Map....

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

, but it is unclear whether any vestiges of the settlement survived highway construction in the area. A post office operated in Ashton between April 28, 1891, and November 29, 1902.