|
 |
Marquette
Located in
Marquette County
|
Community Information
Marquette County Convention and
Visitors Bureau
2552 US Highway 41, West, Suite 300
Marquette,
MI 49855
(906)
228-7749
(800)
544-4321
Attractions
Marquette
County Historical Museum
213 N.
Front St.
(906)
226-3571
Contains
pioneer artifacts, mining and lumber displays and changing exhibits.
Marquette
Maritime Museum
East
Ridge and Lakeshore Blvd.
Housed in
an 1890s water works building. This museum chronicles the maritime
heritage of Marquette and Lake Superior. Displays include boats and
models, three lighthouse lenses, children's hands-on exhibits, antique engines,
photographs and charts. The dockside offices of Marquette's first
commercial fishing and passenger freight companies are re-created and a replica
of a fishing shanty contains items related to sport fishing. A Coast Guard
lighthouse is adjacent to the museum.
Presque
Isle Park
North of
Marquette
(906)
228-0460
Open year
round, 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
A 328
acre wooded peninsula on Lake Superior. The park offers picnic facilities
and rock hunting. An outdoor pool with a waterslide, nature trails
throughout the park that can be used for bog walks in the summer or snowshoeing
in the winter.
The
Upper Peninsula Children's Museum
123 W.
Baraga Avenue
(906)
226-3911
Interactive
exhibits designed with input from local children and their families.
Subjects range from bees and forests to trains and planes.
Heritage
through our Ancestors
Gray, W. H.
Teal Lake ORR Address
Golf Courses
Chocolay
Downs Golf Course
Skiing
& Snowboarding
Blueberry
Ridge Pathway
Co.
Rd. 553
(906)228-6561
1
pathway system with 7 loops. 20km of groomed and marked trails for novice and
advanced skiers. 1 of the loops is lighted for night time skiing. Trail maps
offered.
Great
Northern Adventures
PO
Box 361
Marquette, MI 49855
(906)
225-8687
Outdoor
adventure trips in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Features mountain biking, hiking,
kayaking trips in the summer and fall months, and cross country skiing,
snowshoeing, and dog sledding trips in winter months. Half day to ten day guided
tours year round
Harlow
Park Pathway
County
Road 500
Marquette,
MI 49855
(906)
346-9201
1
marked pathway with 2 loops, loop 1 is 6km, loop 2 is 4 km. For intermediate
skiers. Trail maps available.
Local History
Located on the shore of Iron Bay (now Lower Harbor), it
was popularly called Iron Bay. The village began in 1849 when Robert J.
Graveraet, who had prospected the region for ore, Edward Clark, agent for
Waterman A. Fisher, of Worcester, Massachusetts, who financed it and Amos Rogers
Harlow, organized the Marquette Iron Company.
On September 14, 1849, Mr. Harlow became the first
postmaster of Worcester, with the name changed on August 21, 1859, to honor
Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary. This post office was closed
on August 16, 1852. The Marquette firm failed and was succeeded by the
Cleveland (later Cleveland-Cliffs) Company who had the village platted in
1854. It was recorded by Peter White, who at 18 had come with Graveraet
and in time became one of the chief promoters and benefactors of the town.
What is called the second Carp River post office (there
was already one operating at the Jackson Location) was opened here by Mr. White, in competition with Mr. Harlow on October 13,
1851. Mr. Harlow withdrew from the field on August 16, 1852 and on April
17, 1856, the Carp River post office of Mr. White was renamed Marquette (just as
Mr. Harlow's Worcester post office had been renamed). Incorporated as a
village in 1859 and as a city in 1871.
Informational
excerpts from
Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.
| 
