Trivial pursuits: Familiar U cheer’s Lake Pepin origin
The search engine Google has a feature called “Google Alerts” that lets you receive emails when its crawlers find new pages containing a search term you define.
I have alerts set up for different terms related to Lake City. That’s how I learned about the other Lake Pepin.
The alert was for a news story that mentions Lake Pepin (the one in Le Sueur County).
Over on Wikipedia I learned that, according to a book published by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1920, this Le Sueur lake is named after the Lake Pepin that abuts Lake City.
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