MARQUETTE, mar-ket', Mich., city, county-seat of Marquette County, on Lake Superior, and on the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic and the Lake Superior and Ishpeming railroads, 13 miles northeast of Ishpeming, and about 58 miles north by west of Escanaba, on Lake Michigan. The first permanent settlement was made about 1845 and a little later it was called Worcester after public accounts had been given of the mineral wealth of the Upper Peninsula. It was incorporated in 1851 and chartered as a city in 1869. It was named after Pere Marquette (q.v.) who had visited this section as a mis sionary to the Indians. It has a fine harbor with a breakwater 3,000 feet in length, and the best of facilities for loading steamers with the minerals, especially iron ore, which are shipped from here in large quantities. The ore docks are the largest and best fitted of any in the country. It has steamer communication with all the important lake ports. Near the city are large quarries of brownstone which furnish employment to a number of people. The chief industrial establishments are a planing-mill, two blast furnaces, steam-engine works, and the stone quarries, all employing about 800 men. Other smaller industries are the manufacturing of furniture, sash, door and blinds, and bricks.
The principal buildings are a government build ing which cost $150,000; a county courthouse, cost $250,000; Peter White Library, the building cost $75,000, and the 15,000 volumes are valued at $30,000; a city hall, "cost $60,000. The edu cational buildings are a State Normal School, which cost $150,000, eight public schools, cost $500,000, a manual training school and Saint Joseph's Academy. It has Protestant Episcopal and Roman Catholic cathedrals, Saint Mary's Hospital, the Upper Peninsula State Prison and a house of correction. The Federal govern ment presented to the city Presque Isle, about 400 acres, a short distance north of the city proper. The place has been improved and made into a beautiful park. A statue of Pere Mar quette is in a city square, near the shore. It is a port of entry, a vast amount of iron ore passing through. The three banks have a com bined capital of $400,000, and the annual busi ness amounts to $7,500,000. The government since 1913 has been of the commission type. The electric-light plant and waterworks are owned and operated by the city. Pop. 12,117.