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The SS Marquette was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter built in 1881, that sank on Lake Superior, five miles east of Michigan Island, Ashland County, Wisconsin, Apostle Islands, United States on October 15, 1903. [2] On the day of February 13, 2008 the remains of the Marquette were listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905, the SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was a train ferry built to transport railway cars across Lake Erie from Conneaut, Ohio, to Port Stanley, Ontario. She had a length of 338 feet (103 meters) and a beam of 54 feet (16 meters), and her gross register tonnage was 2,514.
US 41/Bus. M-28 on a map in 1975; [66] this second designation was removed from maps by 1982. [67] The entire business loop was turned back to local control in a "route swap" between the City of Marquette and MDOT announced in early 2005. The proposal transferred jurisdiction on the unsigned M-554 and the business route from the state to the city.
International (1872), built for Grand Trunk, later in use for Pere Marquette on St. Clair River from 1903–27 Pere Marquette 10 (built 1945), in use as ferry until 1974, in use as barge until 1995 Pere Marquette 12 (1927), sold to Canadian National in 1969, renamed St. Clair , converted to barge 1980s, in use until 1995
A post office was first established there in 1889. [5] North of Sagola is the community of Channing which began as a railroad junction called "Fort Siding". In 1892, a post office was established named Channing, after John Parke Channing, a mining engineer who surveyed the area. [5] [7] M-95 crosses the Michigamme River at the
English: Map of the Pere Marquette River in Michigan, USA. Date: 14 February 2011: Source: Self-made using OpenJUMP with State of Michigan GIS data and Inkscape. Author:
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The Des Plaines River today is not the river as it was in, for example, 1673 when Jolliet and Marquette first passed through the Chicago Portage. During the period 1892-1900 the original channel of the river was straightened, cutting off the part that the Jolliet and Marquette party used to reach the west end of the portage. [15]