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	Pepin, Wisconsin, A Storybook Village on Lake Pepin
		Pepin, Wisconsin, A Storybook Village on Lake Pepin
		Our village and Lake Pepin take their name from the Pepin brothers, two of the first French trappers in the area.The village was settled in 1846, and was initially known as a steamboat boomtown familiar to Mark Twain and wealthy Chicago socialites who summered on the lake.
		Pepin is located 70 miles south of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, 50 miles northeast of Rochester, 60 miles north of LaCrosse and 45 miles southwest of Eau Claire.
	www.pepinwisconsin.com (502 words)

	Pepin County Wisconsin Lakes, Pepin County Wisconsin, Lake Pepin Wisconsin
		Pepin County Wisconsin Lakes, Pepin County Wisconsin, Lake Pepin Wisconsin
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	www.wisconsinslakes.com /pepin_county_lakes.html (127 words)

	MVP - Mississippi Valley
		Lake City was well named since it is located at the heart of the Minnesota shoreline on one of the most photogenic spots on Lake Pepin.
		Because of its position on Lake Pepin, provisions were transported by steamers, and it is said that as many as 9 steamboats had been seen on Lake Pepin at one time.
		Lake City was best known as a grain port and had a reputation for treating grain producers so fairly that they would bypass closer and more convenient markets to take their grain to Lake City.
	www.mississippi-river.org /lakecity.html (1086 words)

	Lake City Minnesota Tourism Bureau
		Welcome to our beautiful historic river town located along the shoreline of Lake Pepin, an outwash formation of the Chippewa and Mississippi River, approximately 3 miles wide and 21 miles long with the magnificent Mississippi running through it.
		While you are here, enjoy all the natural splendor of the surrounding bluffs, the lake, numerous parks and vistas our city has to offer.
		No image from the Lake City Tourism Bureau web site may be downloaded, printed or reproduced in any capacity for personal use or for promotional purposes without written permission from the Lake City Tourism Bureau and/or photographer, under penalty of law.
	www.lakecity.org (180 words)

	Geo 5020: Lake Pepin info
		Lake Pepin is a wide stretch of the Mississippi River south of Redwing, MN.
		The largest of these lakes was Lake Agassiz, the result of the melt of the St. Louis lobe to the northwest.
		Since the lake's inception, however, sediment has filled in the channel and raised the lakebottom, so that its deepest point today is the approximate elevation of the top of the lake in its early days.
	lrc.geo.umn.edu /courses/5020/5020pepin.htm (939 words)

	Lake Pepin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Pepin is a naturally occurring lake, the widest naturally occurring part of the Mississippi River.
		The formation of the lake was caused by the backup of water behind the sedimentary deposits of the Chippewa River's delta.
		The largest city on the waterfront is Lake City, Minnesota, though the wide area stretches from Bay City, Wisconsin in the north down just past Pepin, Wisconsin in the south, just upstream from where the Chippewa River enters the Mississippi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Pepin (282 words)

	Pepin County History
		Pepin County was created by a special act of the Wisconsin Legislature on February 25, 1858; ten years after Wisconsin became a state.
		Helen Parkhurst was born and raised in Pepin County.
		Because of that ability, the Pepin County Teachers’ Institute, which met and held seminars in the county courthouse, requested that she be sent to them as a pupil in demonstration classes held there.
	www.co.pepin.wi.us /about/history.htm (3995 words)

	Canku Ota - May 17, 2003 - The 1824 Murder of Mr. Finley and Party at Lake Pepin
		Since the execution of the Indian at Fond du Lac (Lake Superior) in 1797, by the northwestern traders for killing a Canadian 'coureur du bois', the life of a white man had been held sacred by the Ojibways, and one could traverse any portion of their country, in perfect safety, and without the least molestation.
		Early one morning, as the warriors lay watching on the shores of Lake Pepin, they saw a boat manned by four white men land near them, and proceed to cook their morning meal.
		At Lake Pepin they were met by three boats laden with troops from Ft. Snelling, and the party, including volunteers numbered nearly two hundred men.
	www.turtletrack.org /CO_FirstPerson/CO_04052003_LakePepinMurder.htm (1052 words)

	Lake Pepin Watershed Total Maximum Daily Load Eutrophication and Turbidity Impairments -- Minnesota Pollution Control ...
		Lake Pepin is a natural lake on the Mississippi River.
		Lake Pepin’s identified impairments include excess nutrients (eutrophication) and turbidity.
		The Lake Pepin Watershed TMDL project is unique in its size and scope due to the amount of land area included in the watershed as well as the fact that it overlaps state boundaries.
	www.pca.state.mn.us /water/tmdl/tmdl-lakepepin.html (639 words)

	Lake Pepin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lake Pepin, a cargo ship, was launched in 1918 by McDougal Duluth Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minn.; acquired by the Navy; and commissioned at Montreal 4 September 1918.
		Assigned to NOTS, Lake Pepin operated as a coal transport out of Cardiff, Wales, making cross-channel coal runs between British and French ports until 16 May 1919, when she left St. Nazaire, France, with 2,000 tons of Army ordnance bound for the United States.
		Arriving New York 10 June, Lake Pepin decommissioned on the 18th and was returned to USSB the same day.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/l2/lake_pepin.htm (122 words)

	Cleaning Up Lake Pepin
		Pepin continues to suffer from high levels of nutrients, however, and a new effort is underway to improve the lake's lot.
		Although the effort focuses on Pepin, it includes the 60 miles of the Mississippi between Pepin and the Minnesota River, a stretch of the Minnesota, and Spring Lake, an 1,800-acre river backwater at Hastings.
		As Senjem put it, "a plume of sediment extends from the Minnesota into Lake Pepin," which acts as a sink for much of the sediment and for phosphorus that is naturally fixed to the sediment.
	northstar.sierraclub.org /campaigns/water/other/lakePepin.html (917 words)

	The Minnesota Great River Road Bluffs Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lake Pepin is one of the finest sail boating lakes in all of Minnesota.
		The Lake City marina is the largest small boat marina on the Mississippi and is located two blocks to the east of the downtown business district.
		The Lake City area is the nation's largest producer of the Haralson variety of apple.
	www.lakecitymn.org /greatriver/communities/lakecity.html (444 words)

	How Lake Pepin can affect RC wastewater plans
		The reason for that is that Lake Pepin has been identified as ìimpaired for nutrient levels and turbidity,î as part of the federal Clean Water Act (CLA), which dates back to the 1970s.
		Lake Pepinís TMDL is not scheduled to be complete until 2009.
		Bob Moberg, of the cityís engineering firm SEH, noted on Tuesday that the Lake Pepin situation will be one of many that the city will have to deal with on their way to a new waste water treatment facility.
	www.ecmpostreview.com /2005/december/28pepincase.html (667 words)

	Waterski Online - Lake Pepin, Minnesota
		You know how disruptive the lake could be during the founding days of water skiing, but maybe you'd like to know what it's like in 1997.
		Given the buffet of lakes that extends from the Wisconsin border over to the Dakotas, Lake Pepin probably wouldn't be your first choice for spoon-fed conditions.
		Lake City is as innocent today as it was at the turn of the century.
	www.waterskimag.com /article.jsp?ID=12973 (359 words)

	LAKE CITY FOR WATER SKIING PROGRESS COMMITTEE
		The municipal government of Lake City, MN is making a fraudulent claim as "the birthplace of water skiing." But Lake City does NOT feature water skiers at all for its citizens and visitors.
		Lake Pepin, Lake City, MN on April 8, 2005 at 4:34 pm.
		In order to maintain a 24 hour/365 day presence on Lake Pepin, each citizen ages 16 and up would be assigned a minimum of two one hour shifts at the beginning of each new year.
	www.geocities.com /watch_out_for_the_flying_monkeys/lakecity.htm (1006 words)

	www.riverroads.com - Your online guide to the Great River Road and Mississippi River. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lake Pepin was discovered in 1680 by Father Louis Hennepin.
		The village and Lake Pepin get their names from the Pepin brothers, who were two of the first French trappers in the area.
		What is now called Lake Pepin is a 22-mile long lake formed by the delta of the Chippewa River flowing into the Mississippi River.
	www.riverroads.com /grr/lakepepin.html (171 words)

	Lake City Minnesota Tourism Bureau
		Lake Pepin is one of the nation's best sailing lakes due to its 21 mile length and surrounding bluffs.
		Lake Pepin is one of America's Greatest Migration Corridor and designated by the American Bird Conservancy a Globally Important Bird Area.
		No image from the Lake City Tourism Bureau web site may be downloaded, printed or reproduced in any capacity for personal use or for promotional purposes without written permission from the Lake City Tourism Bureau and/or photographer, under penalty of law.
	www.lakecity.org /new/outdoors.html (714 words)

	Sedimental journey: UMNnews: U of M.
		Lake Pepin is filling in fast, and U resesarchers are going to the rescue
		Pepin, a 40-mile bulge in the Mississippi River, is a shallow lake in deep trouble.
		Karen Gran, of the University-based National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED), is one of the leaders of a team conducting a thorough study of sediment movements in the watershed of the Le Sueur River, one of the Minnesota River's most sediment-laden tributaries.
	www.umn.edu /umnnews/Feature_Stories/Sedimental_journey.html (903 words)

	Pepin Lake - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Pepin Lake - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Pepin, Lake, lake on the course of the Mississippi River, located about 60 km (37 mi) south-east of St Paul, Minnesota, on the Wisconsin-Minnesota...
		On the Wisconsin boundary the river expands into Lake Pepin, and thereafter, with a width of about 1.6 km (1 mi), flows between bluffs 61 and 91 m...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Pepin_Lake.html (110 words)

	Sedimental journey: UMNnews: U of M.
		Lake Pepin is filling in fast, and U resesarchers are going to the rescue
		Pepin, a 40-mile bulge in the Mississippi River, is a shallow lake in deep trouble.
		Karen Gran, of the University-based National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED), is one of the leaders of a team conducting a thorough study of sediment movements in the watershed of the Le Sueur River, one of the Minnesota River's most sediment-laden tributaries.
	www1.umn.edu /umnnews/Feature_Stories/Sedimental_journey.html (894 words)

	Village Profile presents Lake City, MN
		Lake Pepin Campground, conveniently located at the north end of town, provides a beautiful view of Lake Pepin and easy access to fueling facilities and dining establishments.
		Lake City is also home to three beautiful golf courses tucked into the bluffs of the river valley.
		Lake City apple orchards produce nearly one-quarter of the 700,000 bushels of apples grown in Minnesota each year.
	www.villageprofile.com /minnesota/lakecity/lakecity4.html (1220 words)

	Untamed Lake Pepin - New York Times
		To people who think of the Midwest as endless cornfields under a flat horizon, Lake Pepin, on the upper Mississippi River between Minnesota and Wisconsin, is a stunning surprise.
		Lake Pepin, ''the Lake of Tears,'' was formed by the delta of the Chippewa River, which flows into the Mississippi at the southwestern edge of Wisconsin.
		In the Goodhue County Historical Museum in Red Wing, at the head of Lake Pepin, a cracked and broken bass viol in a glass case reminds visitors about the river's power.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9C0CE0DC1430F936A25757C0A966958260 (714 words)

	Civilian Ships--Lake Pepin (Cargo Ship, 1918) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lake Pepin, a 2240 gross ton steam cargo ship, was built in 1918 at Duluth, Minnesota.
		She was acquired by the U.S. Navy and placed in commission at Montreal, Quebec, as USS Lake Pepin (ID # 4215) in September 1918.
		USS Lake Pepin was decommissioned in June 1919 and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-civil/civsh-l/lk-pepin.htm (261 words)

	SEMMCHRA - Southeastern Minnesota Multi-County Housing & Redevelopment Authority
		One and two bedroom apartments for rent at Lake Pepin Plaze in Lake City for those 55+.
		Lake City, the birthplace of water skiing, is located on the Mississippi River, 60 miles southeast of the Twin Cities.
		Beautiful Lake Pepin, the widest spot on the Mississippi, forms the eastern edge of the community with bluffs forming the remaining borders.
	www.semmchra.org /rental/lakepepin.php (131 words)

	YMCA Camp Pepin
		Once you have registered for one of YMCA Camp Pepin's Summer Youth Camp sessions, you may either download or request to be mailed a Summer Planning Guide, containing a Parent Packet, a Health Form, a Pick-up Authorization Form, a Camper Information Form, and a Red Wing Family YMCA Waiver.
		Upon arrival at Camp Pepin, the campers will then work in-person with the directors in developing the script, music, scenery, and costumes for their show, which will be performed for the public on-stage at the Sheldon Theatre, Friday evening at 7:00 p.m.
		Camp Pepin lies among some of North America's grandest rivers, which were the highways of the past.
	www.camppepin.org /summeryouthcamps.htm (1871 words)

	Duckworks
		This lake is really a very wide spot in the Mississippi river with Minnesota on the west bank and Wisconsin on the east.
		They had launched it earlier in the week and motored it down the river to Lake Pepin, which will be its permanent home.
		Lake Pepin is a beautiful venue, and the MN Messabout will be held there again next year.
	www.duckworksmagazine.com /05/gatherings/pepin/index.cfm (690 words)

	Lake Pepin Messabout
		The Lake Pepin Messabout (the event formerly known as the Minnesota Messabout at Lake Pepin) is a regional gathering all those who build or love home-built boats.
		Just like last year, the messabout will once again be at beautiful Lake Pepin, on the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
		The lake is huge, and absorbs lots of boats, so there's no crowding.
	www.paxtonconsulting.com /LakePepinMessabout.html (494 words)

	wcco.com - Ice Measuring To Begin On Lake Pepin Thursday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Each year, the Corps measures the ice thickness on Lake Pepin to predict the navigational outlook on the Upper Mississippi.
		Lake Pepin is located on the Mississippi River between Red Wing and Wabasha.
		It's the last part of the river to break up, and the current is slower on Lake Pepin than in the rest of the Mississippi.
	wcco.com /weathernews/local_story_043124615.html (189 words)

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