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The museum also displays the mineral collections of the Ishpeming Rock and Mineral Club. The shaft site and museum are served by the Iron Ore Heritage Trail, a 47-mile (76 km) bicycle and hiking trail that covers much of the length of the Marquette Iron Range. The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum is the starting location for the Marquette Marathon. [8]
The Michigan Iron Industry Museum, a branch facility of the Michigan History Museum, is a community museum serving the heritage of the Marquette Iron Range on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The museum is located in Negaunee , a town built atop the geological strata of the iron range near Marquette . [ 1 ]
Marquette: August 6, 1976: Marquette County Poor House (demolished) Division Street and Pioneer Road Marquette: October 23, 1986: Marquette County Savings Bank† 125 West Washington Street: Marquette: June 18, 1976: Marquette Iron Range Informational Designation Miners Park, at US 41/M-28 and Maple Street Negaunee: July 19, 1956: Marquette Ore ...
The Marquette City Hall was built in the early 1890s; the demand for bricks and sandstone was enough that the local economy was bolstered through the economic depression that lingered at that time. The city used the building until 1977, when it was sold to a private developer who refurbished it into professional offices. 24: Marquette County ...
The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum in Ishpeming and the Michigan Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee each celebrate the history of the iron ore deposit and its miners. [8] [9] A 47-mile-long (76 km) [10] hiking trail from Republic to Marquette, called the Iron Ore Heritage Trail, also provides access to the area's historical sites. [11]
The trail, which has a comparative change in elevation of 1,000 feet (300 m) (steep for the U.S. Midwest) covers much of the length of the Marquette Iron Range, a historically and commercially significant range of hematite and magnetite mined for more than 150 years as iron ore. The trail celebrates the geological and human heritage of the ...
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Marquette (/ m ɑːr ˈ k ɛ t / 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 .