About 25 miles south of Sandpoint at the southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille lies Farragut State Park. Had you been on that spot in 1942, you would have witnessed the construction of the second largest naval training station in the United States. Farragut Naval Training Station temporarily became one of the biggest cities in Idaho. Built as a direct result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the site was picked because it was thought to be safe from coastal bombings and because Lake Pend Oreille provided an inland ocean on which to train.
