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Maiden Rock

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On the east shore of Lake Pepin, opposite this point, a high rock juts out. According to accounts of early travelers, a Sioux maiden of Wabasha’s band, prevented from marrying the warrior of her choice, leaped from this pinnacle to her death to avoid union with another and older man.
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