Marquette, Michigan
Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Close to 20,000 people live there. Marquette is in the Upper Peninsula, on Lake Superior and is an important port on that lake. Much of the iron ore that was taken from mines in the Upper Peninsula was loaded onto ships in Marquette. Marquette is in the United States of America.
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Statue of Jacques Marquette in Marquette
Marquette Harbor Light Station
US Post Office and Federal Building on Washington Street
Lake Superior shoreline at Presque Isle Park in July
Superior Dome, the world's largest wooden dome, serves as the home stadium of the Northern Michigan Wildcats football team
The Presque Isle Harbor Ore Dock, an ore pocket dock, was built in 1912. Trains drop ore into the dock. Then chutes on the side of the dock lower to spill the ore into ships. Shown docked in the photo are the MV Lee A. Tregurtha (near) and the MV Kaye E. Barker (far).
Bishop Baraga House
Presque Isle Power Plant, a coal-fired power station that was fully decommissioned in 2019.
The Marquette County Courthouse was used for the courtroom scenes in the film Anatomy of a Murder
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