by
Sandra Alcott Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
Camp Ripley is the successor to Minnesota�s first formally established National Guard training facility, Camp Lakeview, which was located on the shores of Lake Pepin and south of the town of Lake City. The new post took its name from Fort Ripley, a U.S. Army frontier fort that opened in 1849. The fort�s...