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The first written history of the area tells us that Fort Beauharnois, a French fort, was built on its shores in 1727.
In 1890, Lake Pepin was the sight of one of the worst maritime disasters on the Mississippi and known as the Sea Wing disaster when the Sea Wing ferry boat capsized in a bad storm killing 98 people.
In 1922, Ralph Samuelson invented the sport of water skiing on the lake.
The largest city on the waterfront is Lake City, Minnesota.
The widest area of the lake stretches from Bay City, Wisconsin in the north down past Pepin, Wisconsin, in the south, with Pepin being just upstream from where the Chippewa River enters the Mississippi. The villages of Maiden Rock, and Stockholm also border on the Wisconsin side, while Frontenac State Park takes up a large part of the Minnesota side.
Lake Pepin appears as the lake that Laura and her family visit in the "Going to Town" chapter of "Little House in the Big Woods," the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series.
Sailboats are common on the lake in summer. In the winter, there are ice roads that cross the lake.
Legends claim that the lake is home to a lake monster, Pepie, which was first seen on April 28, 1871. More recently, it has been photographed from the Wisconsin side.
Did you know?
Lake Pepin is a naturally occurring lake. It is the widest naturally occurring part of the Mississippi River on the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The lake was formed by the backup of water behind the sedimentary deposits of the Chippewa River's delta. It has a surface area of about 40 square miles (100 km) and an average depth of 18 feet (5.5 m).
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8 Lake Pepin
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