Lake Pepin
The present name first appears on a French map of 1703, and about its shores centered many French military and trading activities of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Always dangerous, this lake was dreaded by boatmen, and in 1890 the capsizing of the steamboat Sea Wing during a storm, cost about 100 lives.
Verbatim 1940 text, presented as a historical record, not current interpretation. Minnesota now calls the 1862 conflict the U.S.-Dakota War and has since replaced the wording on some of these signs.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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