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NMU’s Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center hosted a full day of presentations, and films to help Marquette residents better ...
Sunday, May 18 marks the 350th anniversary of the death of Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit priest who famously ...
Father Jacques Marquette, the man who gave Marquette its name, made an incredible mark not only on the Upper Peninsula, but throughout North America as well. The French Jesuit Missionary built an ...
On May 18, 1675, the missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette passed away along the shores of Lake Michigan on his way back ...
The story of Father Jacques Marquette, the 17th-century French Jesuit whose Upper Peninsula mission became St. Ignace, will now be told from the perspective of Native Americans as a national ...
By RANDY CROUCH Journal City Editor Marquette MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University will be holding an event to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the passing of Marquette’s namesake, Father ...
May-September: Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet's exploration of the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan takes them by the future site of Chicago. Joliet reports that a canal connecting Lake ...
Marquette University is a high-ranking Catholic institution in Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsin. A private Jesuit university named after French explorer and missionary Rev. Jacques Marquette, ...