On Palms Avenue (U.S. 41) just east of North 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east.
The sport of skiing was introduced to America in the nineteenth century by Scandinavian immigrants. The first ski club in Michigan and one of the first in the country was formed at Ishpeming in 1887. It held its first public ski meet on February . . . — — Map (db m205532) HM
On West Euclid Street east of Lakeshore Drive, on the right when traveling east.
From the late 1860's to the early 1870. there was a critical need
for experienced underground miners.
As large numbers of the Irish labor force in the area had departed for jobs in open pit mining in Colorado, the Cleveland Mining Company went . . . — — Map (db m226659) HM
On West Euclid Street east of Lakeshore Drive, on the right when traveling east.
The Iron Range opened in the 1840s, but it was not until the early 1860s that the first Italians settled the area.
Coming from
Tuscany, Venice, Lombardy, Piedmont, Calabria, Naples,
and Sicily. They settled in Negaunee, Ishpeming, and
Gwinn . . . — — Map (db m226615) HM
On South 4th Street just south of Mather Street, on the left when traveling south.
Frederic Baraga was a lawyer, an artist and a Roman Catholic priest who came to the U.S. from present-day Slovenia in 1830. Baraga (1797-1868) served Native Americans in the Great Lakes region and wrote A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language . . . — — Map (db m206057) HM
On North Lakeshore Boulevard just north of East Washington Street, on the right when traveling north.
On this site in 1852, the Green Bay and Lake Superior Rail-Road began the survey which led to the construction of the first steam railroad in the Upper Peninsula. The railroad ran from Marquette to the Jackson and Cleveland iron mines fourteen . . . — — Map (db m206097) HM
Near Lakeshore Boulevard at Lakeshore Park Place Drive, on the right when traveling north.
[south side] George Shiras III (1859-1942) was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He developed an interest in wildlife at the age of eleven when his father took him hunting and fishing near Marquette. Shiras received his law degree from Yale . . . — — Map (db m206174) HM
Near South Front Street just south of East Baraga Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
During the seventeenth century, dedicated Jesuit missionaries forged into the North American wilderness to live and work among the native peoples of the Great Lakes region. In September 1666, at age twenty-nine, Father Jacques Marquette arrived in . . . — — Map (db m206171) HM
On West Spring Street, 0.1 miles west of South Front Street, on the right when traveling west.
Commissioned by William Janzen, this house has served residents of Marquette County since 1893. It was designed by Lovejoy and Demar, architects for the Old City Hall on Washington Street. Following a fire in 1983, Doris Seavoy Bullock donated the . . . — — Map (db m214540) HM
On South 3rd Street just south of West Spring Street, on the right when traveling south.
This Neoclassical Revival structure, designed by Charlton & Gilbert of Marquette, was constructed in 1902-04 at a cost of $210,000. Built of local sandstone, it is the second courthouse to occupy this site. In a case tried here in 1913, President . . . — — Map (db m206155) HM
On North Lakeshore Boulevard at East Washington Street, on the right when traveling north on North Lakeshore Boulevard.
The Marquette Fire Department was organized as early as the 1850’s and reorganized in 1861 as Phoenix Fire Co. No. 1. After several additional reorganizations, the department was unable to halt the terrible fire of 1868 which destroyed the business . . . — — Map (db m214544) HM
On North Lakeshore Boulevard at East Washington Street, on the right when traveling north on North Lakeshore Boulevard.
The Tocsin or Fire Bell has been part of a community since ancient times, warning the inhabitants of danger. The old fire bell was cast in bronze by the Henry McShane Bell Foundry in Baltimore, Maryland in 1882. It was placed in the Spring Street . . . — — Map (db m214545) HM
Near Lee Drive just east of 7th Street, on the right when traveling east.
Established by the legislature in 1899 as a normal school to provide teachers for the Upper Peninsula, Northern opened with thirty-two students, six faculty members, and Dwight B. Waldo as principal. A four-year collegiate program was introduced in . . . — — Map (db m206001) HM
Near Lee Drive just north of West Kaye Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Northern Michigan University's original 20 acre site was donated to the State Board of Education by John M. Longyear and Frederick Ayer in 1899. The first dormitory (1900-1917) was located to the south across Kaye Avenue. D. F. Charleton was the . . . — — Map (db m214504) HM
Near North Lakeshore Boulevard at Picnic Rocks Drive, on the right when traveling north.
In these calm but treacherous waters of Lake Superior sixteen lives have been lost since 1961. This memorial serves to honor those lives and the lives of the ones before them. Through this knowledge from this day forward may no more lives be lost. . . . — — Map (db m239999) HM
Near Lee Drive, 0.1 miles north of West Kay Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
Between 1946 and 1957 Vetville existed on this site. It was developed by President Henry Tape (1940-1956) to accommodate the influx of World War II veterans who attended Northern Michigan University funded by the G.I. Bill. It was also home to . . . — — Map (db m214444) HM
Near North Lakeshore Boulevard, 0.2 miles east of East Washington Street, on the right when traveling east.
This monument, representing a World War II submarine, is dedicated to Captain David H. McClintock USN, Marquette; to Captain B. Dulaney Claggett USN, Bethesda, MD; and to the officers and men of submarines Darter and Dace. Their . . . — — Map (db m154129) HM WM
On South Lakeshore Boulevard just north of East Spring Street, on the right when traveling north.
Patience is a virtue we are often told. But impatience spawns innovation and that's how the first iron ore pocket dock came to be. In 1857 Captain George Judson became impatient with the slow transfer of iron ore from trams on the dock to the . . . — — Map (db m216246) HM
On County Road 510, 0.1 miles north of Bridgewood Lane, on the right when traveling north.
The County Road 510 steel truss bridge over the Dead River owes its existence to the passage of a few key Acts by the Michigan Legislature in the early 1900's. The first of these acts was the Trunk Line Act of 1913, which provided for the laying out . . . — — Map (db m198443) HM
On County Road 510, 0.1 miles north of Bridgewood Lane, on the right when traveling north.
In March of 1999, the Marquette County Road Commission (MCRC) received word from the State of Michigan that critical bridge funding for replacing the CR 510 Bridge over the Dead River had been approved. It was at this time that the planning process . . . — — Map (db m198444) HM
On U.S. 41 at Maas Street, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 41.
On this spot on Sept. 19, 1844, William A. Burt, a deputy government surveyor, was the first to discover the great Lake Superior iron ore deposits. Peculiar fluctuations in his magnetic compass led Burt to ask his men to seek the cause, and they . . . — — Map (db m76314) HM
On U.S. 41 at Maple Street, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 41.
The first of the immensely rich Lake Superior iron ore deposits to be discovered and mined were those of the Marquette Iron Range. In 1844 William A. Burt and his surveying party discovered outcroppings of iron ore south of Teal Lake. This area soon . . . — — Map (db m153993) HM
Near Park City Road at Republic Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Among the earliest settlers in the Republic area, circa 1870, were the Munsons, Polkinghornes, Pascoes, Gibsons, Wilsons, Doyles, Gambels, Petersons, Bergstroms and Dodges. They had made their way from Cornwall County, England; Sweden, Finland, . . . — — Map (db m154298) HM
Near Park City Road, 0.2 miles south of River Road (County Road 601), on the right when traveling south.
The forest industry is alive and well here at present but farming is mainly a thing of the past. When immigrants flocked to the village of Republic, they settled in separate and distinct locales — such as "French Town", "Finn Town" (Park . . . — — Map (db m154327) HM
Near Park City Road, 0.2 miles south of River Road (County Road 601), on the right when traveling south.
Government land surveyors made the first recorded notice of the mineral deposit in 1846 when surveying the township lines (½ mile to the west), stating "...there appears to be an almost inexhaustible quantity of specular iron ore, the needle . . . — — Map (db m154324) HM
Near Park City Road at Republic Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Lawrence A. La Fave — August 12, 1962 Robert E. Bengtson — Nov. 7, 1962 Norman S. Korpi — Sept. 9, 1965 Ronald W. Polkki — Oct. 18, 1969 Melvin L. Roberts — Nov. 22, 1969 John Hedko Jr. — June 25, 1972 Robert W. . . . — — Map (db m154405) HM
Near Park City Road just south of River Road (County Road 601), on the right when traveling south.
A Republic landmark named in honor of Andrew Kloman; founder of the Kloman Mine. Dedicated on this day, July 1, 1995 by Mr. Kloman’s great-grandson, Andrew (Drew) Kloman III during the Republic Quasquicentennial Celebration. — — Map (db m154300) HM
Near Park City Road, 0.2 miles south of River Road (County Road 601), on the right when traveling south.
There were advantages and disadvantages to the mine expansion and subsequent moving of Republic. In 1950 rumors circulated that the long period of mine inactivity was coming to an end. Cleveland Cliffs began a huge expansion program and . . . — — Map (db m154328) HM
Near Park City Road, 0.2 miles south of River Road (County Road 601), on the right when traveling south.
Various underground mining occupations included trammers, teamsters, drilling teams, blasters and at the very top “miner.” Ore extraction in the 1870's was pure manual labor. The ore was broken from the surface with picks, sledge . . . — — Map (db m154326) HM
Near Park City Road at Republic Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
The Republic Iron Company was the first successful mining company in Republic and was located on Swede Hill. Anna Mae Gibson was the first girl and Charles W. Munson was the first boy born in Republic to the early settlers in 1872 and 1873, . . . — — Map (db m154299) HM
Near Park City Road, 0.2 miles south of River Road (County Road 601), on the right when traveling south.
The low-grade hematitic cherty iron formation (band 3 in the diagram) provided the raw material for the production of concentrated iron ore pellets. As the depth of the pit increased, the primary crusher was installed in the 300-foot high wall (to . . . — — Map (db m154325) HM
Near Park City Road, 0.2 miles south of River Road (County Road 601), on the right when traveling south.
Twice in history the Republic mine was one of the greatest producers in the country: from 1872 to 1928 and again from the 1950’s through the ‘70’s. The late, great Republic Mine was the impetus for the creation of the village of Republic in . . . — — Map (db m154323) HM
