Amo Township stores started in 1896 with a creamery, a blackshop, a store attached to a home which was shipped out from the cities and hauled out from Windom, and a post office.
A photograph showing the exterior of the Cottonwood County Bank, built in 1895. A man and a child stand in front of the bank. An outside stairway is on the right side of the photograph and leads up to an apartment.
A snow covered street and buildings on the West side of the square, 4th Avenue, looking north. Pictured are: ?, Nason Meat Market, Hardware store, Land Office, ?, O. Nelson and Son Store, J. O. Thompson Land Office, Baptist Church. Several houses are visible to the north, as well as trees that were planted for a park on the right side of street.
A view down Main Street. A pool hall, general store, storehouse, harness shop, Town Hall and Saloon, restaurant, barber shop, First State Bank, and meat market visible.
The North side of the square, on 10th Street in Windom. The bank is the first building on the right. The park was located across the street where the courthouse was later built.