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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5N_louis-mccahill-memorial-park_Lake-City-MN.html
Dedicatedin grateful memory ofher son and all otherswho made the supremesacrifice and all whoserved in defense oftheir countryinWorld War I 1917 · 1918World War II 1941 · 1945Korean War 1950 · 1954byMary E. McCahill
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5C_the-first-settler_Lake-City-MN.html
The first actual settler in Lake City was Jacob Boody who came in the Fall of 1853. His brother and Abner Dwelle came the next year. Samuel Doughty built the first substantial home and blacksmith shop in 1855. That same year the town was platted a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ58_a-very-old-fish-story_Lake-City-MN.html
Ten thousand years ago, as the Ice Age was drawing to a close, Wisconsin's fast-flowing Chippewa River carried vast quantities of sand. But where the Chippewa entered the Mississippi, ten miles downstream from here, its current slowed and the sand…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ24_lake-pepins-shell-game-in-search-of-summer_Lake-City-MN.html
Lake Pepin's Shell Game Celebrated today as a resort area, Lake Pepin had an earlier fame as a clamming center. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, more than 500 clammers worked the lake from their flat-bottomed johnboats, using giant combs called …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUL5_gold-star-memorial_Lake-City-MN.html
Dedicatedin loving memoryof themen and womenof this communitywho gavetheir livesin the serviceof their country
by the Gold Star kin
DedicatedMay 30, 1961
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUKU_the-sea-wing-disaster_Lake-City-MN.html
On July 13, 1890, the steamer "Sea Wing", with covered barge alongside, and 215 passengers aboard was returning from a Sunday excursion down the Mississippi River to Lake City. At 8 p.m., Captain D.N. Wethern had guided the steamer 5 miles up Lake…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUH1_historic-lake-pepin-birthplace-of-waterskiing_Lake-City-MN.html
"I decided that if you could ski on snow, you could ski on water." In 1922, after first trying barrel staves, then snow skis, eighteen year old Ralph W. Samuelson succeeded in waterskiing on eight foot long pine boards, steamed in boiling water to…