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European explorers and fur traders arrived in the Minnesota region that would eventually become Zippel Bay State Park. Largely, travelers and explorers, there were very few permanent settlers on known records until 1887. A gentleman by the name of Wilhelm Zippel arrived in the area with the intention of creating a fishing enterprise on the Lake of the Woods. A few other fishermen came along, and the commercial operations grew. The fishing industry was so successful that it all but wiped out Lake Sturgeon, and today, it’s extremely rare to catch one (if a fisherman is fortunate, he is advised to catch-and-release it). The state of Minnesota purchased some land along the shores of Lake of the Woods, where the original Zippel homestead was and officially established it as a state park in 1959.