* Buffalo, Marquette County, Wisconsin, town

Category: Education in Marquette County, Michigan

Category: Buildings and structures in Marquette County, Michigan

Category: Visitor attractions in Marquette County, Michigan

** Richmond Township, Marquette County, Michigan

* Springfield, Marquette County, Wisconsin

* The Tilden Mine in Marquette County, Michigan is also named after Tilden, the founder of the Cliffs Iron Company in 1864.

* Westfield, Marquette County, Wisconsin, a town

Quite a few counties bear names of French or Spanish origin, such as Marquette County being named after French missionary Father Jacques Marquette.

Marquette County is a county located in the U. S. state of Wisconsin.

The Mecan River, Buffalo Lake, and Puckaway Lake lie within Marquette County.

The Marquette County Courthouse was used for courthouse scenes.

Marquette County is a county in the US state of Michigan.

Marquette County is the largest county in land area in Michigan, and the most populous county in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

In addition to the of state highways in the county, the Marquette County Road Commission maintains of primary county roads which include County Road 492 ( CR 492 ), and of secondary county roads.

* Marquette County Courthouse

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Marquette County, Michigan

* Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, Bibliography on Marquette County.

* Marquette County web site

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In 1962 this concept of the spreadsheet, called BCL for Business Computer Language, was implemented on an IBM 1130 and in 1963 was ported to an IBM 7040 by R. Brian Walsh at Marquette University, Wisconsin.

In 1673, an expedition headed by Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, though possibly not the first Europeans to visit the area, was the first recorded to have crossed the Chicago Portage and travelled along the Chicago River.

By 1880 Houghton had become " a burgeoning city " and in 1883, the railroad was extended from Marquette.

Sheen was the 2003 recipient of the Marquette University Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa for his work on social and Catholic issues ..

The first European settlement in the state of Illinois was the Jesuit mission founded in 1675 by Father Jacques Marquette on the banks of the Illinois at Starved Rock.

The film was shot in several locations in the Upper Peninsula ( Big Bay, Marquette, Ishpeming, and Michigamme ).

Marquette had spent some time at the mission of St. Francois Xavier before his voyage and, as a Jesuit, was unlikely to have given the river a name honoring the Franciscans.

Such was the dramatic arrival of the Burr Caswell family, first permanent white settlers in the region about Pere Marquette Lake.

The railroad even which had begun to extend from Flint Michigan towards the east coast of the state was incorporated as the Flint & Pere Marquette.

In 1859 the Village of Lincoln was on the move and was out distancing the Village of Pere Marquette in commerce and growth.

Mears originally entered all of the lands surrounding the Big and Little Sable Rivers because the land at Pere Marquette was taken by Joseph Boyden and the lands at Freesoil were taken by Wheeler and Harris.

It was a much anticipated event, everyone knew that having the railroad coming to the village of Pere Marquette would benefit all.

The road was wide open now for Eber Ward to secure land for a terminus in Ludington on the Pere Marquette Lake.

Iron County was organized in 1885 from territory taken from Marquette and Menominee Counties.

The origin of the name, which was what it would be called or referred to in popular vernacular, was most likely a corruption of the name of French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet, who in 1673, along with Father Jacques Marquette, paddled up the Des Plaines River and camped on a huge mound, a few miles ( a unit of distance ) south of present-day Joliet.

Marquette itself was originally incorporated as North McGregor in 1874, and it served as a railroad terminus for its southern neighbor.

Marquette subsequently became home to a major rail yard, which even as late as 1920 was the busiest in Iowa, employing 400 people.

Not too long afterwards, the railroad's significance declined, the last passenger train stopped in Marquette in 1960, and the pontoon bridge was disassembled in 1961.

More railroads were built to connect McGregor with cities further west, and the city of North McGregor ( now Marquette, Iowa ) was established just north of the city to serve as the city's railroad terminus.