Winter Service sits at its current location on Dakota Avenue shortly after the business relocated there in 1970. Pictured are Dayle Winter and his father, George Winter Jr., representing the third and second generations of the Winter family to carry on the long-standing Wessington Springs business. (PHOTO COURTESY WINTER FAMILY)
A young soldier forged his skills as a blacksmith in the German army during the early twentieth century. Soon after his military career ended, George Winter, Sr., left his homeland to pursue a better life for himself and his descendants and sailed to America.
“After landing in the United States, my grandfather headed west with hopes of finding a place where he could blacksmith and shoe horses,” sai…
