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Marquette, Michigan. (2020) Marquette (/ mɑːrˈkɛt / mar-KET) is the county seat of Marquette County and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. Located on the shores of Lake Superior, Marquette is a major port known primarily for shipping iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range.
Father Marquette National Memorial pays tribute to the life and work of Jacques Marquette, French priest and explorer. The memorial is located in Straits State Park near St. Ignace in the modern-day U.S. state of Michigan, where he founded a Jesuit mission in 1671 and was buried in 1678. The associated Father Marquette Museum building was ...
Jacques Marquette, S.J. (French pronunciation: [ʒak maʁkɛt]; June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), [ 1 ] sometimes known as Père Marquette or James Marquette, [ 2 ] was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan 's first European settlement, Sault Sainte Marie, and later founded Saint Ignace. In 1673, Marquette, with Louis Jolliet, an ...
Marquette Catholic was established in 1927 by the Ursuline Sisters. It was built at the request of Bishop Griffin, the Bishop of Springfield in Illinois. It was the first coeducational Catholic high school in the Diocese. The Ursuline Sisters have a history of teaching the youth of Alton dating back to 1859.
FIPS code. 26-70960 [2] GNIS feature ID. 0636762 [3] Website. Official website. St. Joseph, colloquially known as St. Joe, is a city and the county seat of Berrien County, Michigan. It was incorporated as a village in 1834 and as a city in 1891. [4] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 7,856. [5]
Area code. 906 [ a ] The Upper Peninsulaof Michigan —also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop —is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac.
Negaunee (/ nəˈɡɔːni / nə-GAW-nee or locally / ˈnəˈɡɒni / nə-GON-ee) is a city in Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,627 at the 2020 census. [2] The city is located at the southwest corner of Negaunee Township, which is administratively separate, in the Upper Peninsula.
Business US Highway 41 Bus. US 41 highlighted in red Route information Auxiliary route of US 41 Maintained by MDOT Length 2.343 mi (3.771 km) Existed November 21, 1963 (1963-11-21) –October 10, 2005 (2005-10-10) History Signage removed November 9, 2005 Major junctions West end US 41 / M-28 and Washington Street in Marquette East end US 41 / M-28 and Front Street in Marquette Location Country ...