MARQUETTE, mitr-ket'. A city and the county-seat of Marquette County, Mich., 170 miles west of Sault Sainte Marie; on Marquette Bay, an inlet of Lake Superior, and on the Du luth, South Shore and Atlantic, and other rail roads that connect with the mining centres of the Lake Superior mineral region (Map: Michigan, F 2). The city, noted for its charming scenery, clear and cool atmosphere, and fine buildings and streets, is popular as a summer resort, and is the principal shipping point for the mineral wealth, mainly iron, of the region. It has a fine harbor and regular steamship communication with important lake ports, and its ore docks, well equipped with the latest devices for handling traffic, are among the largest in the world. There are a large brownstone quarry-iron works, fonn dries, and maehine shops; carriage, sash, door, and blind factories; brick yards; lumber and flowing mills, etc. Among the notable struc tures are the United States Government building, city hall, Northern Normal School, new manual training and high school, opera house. Peter
White Public Library, Protestant Episcopal and Roman Catholic cathedrals, and the Upper Penin sula State Prison and House of Correction. Presque Isle, a headland of 400 acres north of Marquette, was presented to the city by the Federal Government and has been converted into an attractive park. The water-works and electric light plant are owned by the municipality. Mar quette, named in honor of Pere Marquette, the French missionary explorer, was settled in 1845, when the rich deposits of iron Ore began to be ex ploited. The first dock was completed in 1854 and a railroad to the mines three years later. The city's subsequent prosperity has been marked. l'imulation, in 1890, 0093; in 1900, 10,058.