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The Tower

The Milford Tower is the most famous of the Okoboji dive sites. It is a 15-foot wooden structure anchored in 30 feet of water in the southeast corner of Browns Bay. It was built on the ice, filled with stones, and lowered to the lake’s bottom in the winter. The tower holds upright an 8-inch intake that from 1915 to 1940 provided Milford, Iowa with drinking water. The intake is no longer used but the tower remains and provides shade and shelter for pan fish and bass. It can sometimes be seen from boats in early spring. The early photo is from 1994. The other two were taken April 24, 2003. On page ten of his book “Down Memory Lane,” Okoboji author and historian R. Aubrey LaFoy prints a photograph of the tower on the ice before it was lowered to the lake bottom.

1994

2003

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