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Marquette County Timeline
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1660 Rene Menard, is the first Jesuit missionary to pass Marquette on his way to Keweenaw Bay where he winters.
1671 Sieur de St. Lusson, in a ceremony at Sault Ste. Marie, officially claims the Lake Superior Country for Louis XIV.
1763 The French leave North America and the English take control of the Upper Peninsula.
1796 The U.S. finally takes control of the Great Lakes Country.
1805 Michigan Territory is created with Detroit as the capital.
1807 Indians of the Upper Peninsula are in contact with Indian patriots Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet and share their ideas of Indian independence.
1820 Lewis Cass leading a government expedition into the west, stops at the future site of Marquette.
1837 Michigan enters the Union.
1842 By the Treaty of LaPointe the Ojibwe cede the western Upper Peninsula including Marquette County, to the federal government.
1843 Marquette County is formed.
1844 William Burt finds iron ore in Negaunee while surveying for the government.
1845 Marjigeesek leads Philo Everett and his party to the iron deposits at Negaunee.
1846 Early settlement of Negaunee.
1847 Jackson Mining Company is organized and constructs the Carp River forge.
1848 The Jackson Iron Company is incorporated at Jackson, Michigan. Philo Everett begins operating the Jackson Forge in Negaunee.
1849 The articles for the Marquette Iron Company are drawn up in Worcester, Massachusetts.
City of Marquette is founded by Amos Harlow and first called Worcester.
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1850 Near famine during the winter.
Name Worcester is changed to Marquette. The population is 136 people.
Records show the first meeting of the township.
1851 A state authorized plank road is completed between Marquette and Negaunee.
1852 There are about 200 people living in Marquette.
1853 The first Washington Street school is constructed. The Cleveland iron Company is founded.
1855 St. Mary's River Canal is completed and opened.
John Burt moves the Journal to Marquette. Circulation is 900.
1856 St. Paul's Episcopal church is established. Ishpeming is established.
7,000 tons of iron ore are shipped from the Marquette Range.
1857 Presbyterian church is organized.
Iron Mountain Railroad (Ist in the Upper Peninsula) railroad connects Marquette and Neguanee.
First pocket dock is built in Marquette. Old court house is built.
The Pioneer Furnace is opened in Negaunee.
1858 Marquette Lodge No. 101, F. and A.M. is charted.
1859 Marquette is incorporated as a village.
1860 Marquette's population is 1,664 inhabitants.
116,000 tons of iron ore are shipped from the Marquette Range. The population of Marquette County is 2,821.
1861 The Civil War begins.
1862 Iron mining companies pay their first dividends. Ishpeming adopts its present name.
1863 Forsyth and Champion are founded.
1864 The Peninsula Railroad connecting Negaunee and Escanaba is completed.
Philip and Josephine Marchetti are the first Italians to settle in Negaunee Township.
A naval unit is landed at Marquette to end a strike of iron miners in Negaunee and Ishpeming.
Humboldt is founded.
1865 The civil War ends and President Lincoln is assassinated.
The first telegraph line connects Marquette with the world.
The first shipment of 125 tons of coal arrives in Marquette. The demand for iron is brisk and regular and Negaunee prospers.
The village of Negaunee is incorporated.
1867 Surveys for the U.S. breakwater in Marquette Bay (formerly iron Bay) are made.
1868 Frederick Baraga the first bishop of the Catholic diocese of the Upper Peninsula, dies in Marquette.
A fire destroys downtown Marquette.
1869 The name Mining Journal is first used. The Board of Fire and Water Commissioners is formed.
Ishpeming is incorporated as a village
1870 Marquette has a population of 3,880.
856,000 tons of iron ore are shipped from the Marquette Range.
1871 Marquette becomes a home rule charter city.
Henry H. Stafford serves as the first mayor.
Negaunee's average annual iron ore production reaches 135,000 tons.
An early baseball team represents Marquette.
1872 Ishpeming's first hospital opens.
The Republic Mine opens; 88% pure iron deposits permit continuous high level of production for many years.
Marquette is linked to Chicago with the completion of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway.
Michigamme is founded.
1873 John Longyear arrives in Marquette.
Financial Panic hits the country and effects Marquette. 1,175,000 tons of iron ore are shipped from the port of Marquette.
The Negaunee Iron Herald is founded.
Ishpeming has a population of 6,000 inhabitants at its incorporation.
1874 The Lake Superior Carriage works opens in Marquette. A fire destroys much of Ishpeming.
The Iron Home is first published in Ishpeming.
1879 First telephone is installed in Marquette.
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1880 1,430,863 tons of iron ore are shipped from the Marquette Range.
There are 4,690 people living in Marquette.
The population of Marquette County is 10,065.
1881 The Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette Railroad is completed.
1882 Stannard Rock light beings operation.
1885 A.P. Swineford of Marquette is appointed territorial governor
of Alaska by President Cleveland.
1886 The old federal building, the first government building to be constructed in the Upper Peninsula is completed.
Congress approves a measure granting Presque Isle Park to the
city of Marquette.
1887 The Peninsula Bank, Ishpeming opens for business. Marquette Branch Prison is established.
A severe storm brings high winds and snow.
1888 First ski jumping tournament is held in Ishpeming.
The Citizens' Association is organized to further the employment opportunities of the people.
1889 The Marquette Branch Prison is built.
Marquette opens its first electric light plant on the Dead River.
1890 Dr. W.A. Perrin operates Northwest Hospital, the first in Marquette.
George Shiras III begins taking night photos of wildlife. 2,993,664 tons of iron ore are shipped from the Marquette Range.
The population of Marquette is 9,093.
The Lake Shore Iron Works is established in Marquette. The opera house is opened in Marquette.
The population of Marquette County is 39,521.
1891 St. Mary's Hospital opens.
Construction on old city Hall begins.
Street railway begins serve in Marquette.
1893 John M. Longyear begins developing the Emblagaard diary in Big Bay.
1895 Some 3,000 miners in Negaunee and Ishpeming conduct a two month long strike.
A severe storm in Lake Superior causes much damage to shipping.
1896 Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad is established.
Hotel Superior in Marquette is opened with a grand ball.
Nels P. Flodin of Lake Shore Iron Works in Marquette designs and builds an outboard engine.
1897 St. Luke's Hospital is incorporated.
The bronze statue of Pere Marquette is unveiled.
1898 During the Spanish American War men from Marquette see service.
1899 Northern Michigan University is established by legislative action.
The Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station is established in Chatam.
1900 The population of Marquette is 10,058.
The population of Marquette County is 41,239.
1901 Town of Big Bay is established.
1902 Charley Kaw-baw-gam local Native American leader dies in Marquette.
3,868,025 tons of iron ore are shipped from the Marquette Range.
1903 12 million board feet of timber are sent down the Dead River.
1904 Peter White Library is built.
1907 The model town of Gwinn is developed.
1909 4,256,172 tons of iron ore are shipped from the Marquette Range.
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1910 The population of Marquette is 11,503.
The population of Marquette County is 46,739.
1911 Ishpeming is one of the most important mining centers in the Lake Superior district.
1912 President William R. Taft comes to Marquette to campaign for re-election.
The Lake Superior & Ishpeming ore dock in the upper harbor is opened.
1913 Former president Theodore Roosevelt sues Ishpeming, iron ore publisher, George Newett who accused him of being a drunk. Roosevelt comes to Marquette for the trial.
A gale rips across Lakes Superior, Huron and Erie.
1918 Spanish influenza hits Marquette County. World War I ends.
1925 A large portion of Chatam is destroyed.
1926 Sam Kaufman's grand lodge, Granot Loma is completed.
Ku Klux Klan parades in a number of communities in the county.
Barnes Hecker mine disaster in Ishpeming where 52 miners lose their lives.
1929 The Landmark Hotel opens as the Hotel Northland in Marquette. Stock market crash begins the Great Depression.
1932 President Herbert Hoover carries Marquette County.
1933 Liquor is legalized thus ending Prohibition.
The Civilian Conversation Corps (CCC) is created and numerous camps will be opened in the county.
1935 The Works Progress Administration (WPA) is started. It will provide jobs for hundreds in the county.
1937 Marquette County Airport opens at the future site of K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base.
5,102,000 tons of iron ore are shipped from Marquette.
1938 During a terrible blizzard, downtown Marquette is hit by a serious fire.
1941 U.S. declares war on the Axis powers.
1946 Steelworkers strike on the Marquette Range.
1949 The population of Marquette is 16,000.
1953 seven criminals break out of the Marquette Branch Prison.
1954 Dominic Jacobetti is first elected to state legislature.
The National Ski Hall of fame is opened in Ishpeming.
1956 Eagle Mills begins its pelletizing operation which reactivates iron production on the Marquette Range.
1957 K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base established at the site of the county Airport in Gwinn.
1959 The movie Anatomy of a Murder is filmed in Marquette County.
1968 Jet air service comes to Marquette County.
1970 Following the Kent State shootings, the situation on the NMU campus is tense.
Cable television comes to Marquette County.
1973 Marquette General Hospital is created by joining two hospitals.
1976 Marquette County communities celebrate the national Bi-Centennial.
1981 Riots break out at the Marquette Branch Prison.
1985 Severe early storm erodes the Marquette County shoreline along Lake Superior.
1991 During the Persian Gulf War planes from Sawyer see action. The Superior Dome opens.
1994 Dominic Jacobetti of Negaunee, longest serving legislator, who ably represented the Upper Peninsula, dies.
1999 New Sawyer International Airport opens.
Marquette celebrates its sesquicentennial.
2000 Renovated and expanded Peter White Library opens.
Russell Magnaghi
May 2000
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