Historical Information by Facebook user Peg ‘Bayerkohler’ Scheppmann

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What can someone do with some swampland adjacent to beautiful West Lake Okoboji?  You dig canals and make a harbor, and that’s what developers did in 1970. Today, the canals provide convenient access to West Okoboji for the many beautiful homes constructed since then.

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Images

(Cracking the champagne bottles at the opening of Lake Okoboji to the Harbor are Augy and Ardyce Scheppmann and Tory and Alta Nodland.)

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(West Okoboji Harbor with developers Augy Scheppmann and Tory Nodland.)

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(From around the 50s and 60s)

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(Present Day aerial view of the canals)

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(The entrance/exit from the harbor)

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(Another view of the West Okoboji Harbor)