Marquette
Bishop Baraga House
Marquette, MI
Frederic Baraga was a lawyer, an artist and a Roman Catholic priest who came to the U.S. from present-day Slovenia in 1830.
First Steam Railroad in Upper Peninsula
Marquette, MI
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...
George Shiras III
Marquette, MI
George Shiras III (1859-1942) was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
Gwinn Model Town
Gwinn, MI
William Gwinn Mather, president of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, directed the design and construction of Gwinn.
Ishpeming: Historic Ski Center
Ishpeming, MI
The sport of skiing was introduced to America in the nineteenth century by Scandinavian immigrants.
Jackson Mine
Negaunee, MI
On this spot on September 19, 1844, William A. Burt, a deputy government surveyor, was the first to discover the great Lake Superior iron...
Jacques Marquette
Marquette, MI
During the seventeenth century, dedicated Jesuit missionaries forged into the North American wilderness to live and work among the native...
Marquette County Courthouse
Marquette, MI
This Neoclassical Revival structure, designed by Charlton and Gilbert of Marquette, was constructed in 1902-04 at a cost of $210,000.
Marquette Iron Range
Negaunee, MI
The first of the immensely rich Lake Superior iron ore deposits to be discovered and mined were those of the Marquette Iron Range.
Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI
Established by the legislature in 1899 as a normal school to provide teachers for the Upper Peninsula, Northern opened with thirty-two...
Sam Cohodas Lodge
Michigamme Township, MI
This lodge, built for Russian immigrant Sam Cohodas, symbolizes the Upper Peninsula’s ethnic diversity.
William Bakewell
Skandia, MI
William Bakewell was born in Joliet, Illinois, in 1888.