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
