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Marquette County, Michigan

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39historic places

—earliest paper

1843formed

66,017pop. 2020

25cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 39 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Marquette, Negaunee, Ishpeming.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

25 of 39 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

39 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Arch and Ridge Streets Historic District	Marquette	District	1980
Big Bay Point Light Station	Big Bay	District	1988
Braastad-Gossard Building	Ishpeming	Building	2015
COASTER II	Marquette	Structure	1989
Call House	Marquette	Building	1972
Cleveland Mine Engine House Number 3	Ishpeming	Building	2007
Cliffs Shaft Mine	Ishpeming	District	1992
Cohodas, Sam, Lodge	Champion	District	1991
County Road 557-West Branch Escanaba River Bridge	Wells Township	Structure	1999
Granite Island Light Station	Marquette	Building	1983
Granot Loma	Marquette	District	1991
Gwinn Model Town Historic District	Forsyth	District	2002
Harlow Block	Marquette	Building	1983
Holy Family Orphanage	Marquette	Building	2015
Huron Islands Lighthouse	Big Bay	Building	1975
Ishpeming Main Street Historic District	Ishpeming	District	2021
Ishpeming Municipal Building	Ishpeming	Building	1981
Jackson Iron Company Site	Negaunee	Site	1975
Jackson Mine	Negaunee	Site	1971
Longyear Building	Marquette	Building	2004
M 95 (old)-Michigamme River Bridge	Republic Township	Structure	1999
Marquette City Hall	Marquette	Building	1975
Marquette County Courthouse	Marquette	Building	1978
Marquette Harbor Light Station	Marquette	Building	1984
Marquette and Western Railroad Negaunee Freight Depot	Negaunee	Building	2008
Mather Inn	Ishpeming	Building	1978
Midgaard	Marquette	Building	2013
Negaunee Downtown Historic District	Negaunee	District	2021
Negaunee Fire Station	Negaunee	Building	2004
Negaunee State Bank Building	Negaunee	Building	1995
Park Hotel and Cabins	Republic	Building	2013
Presque Isle Harbor Breakwater Light	Marquette	Structure	2016
Savings Bank Building (Additional Documentation)	Marquette	Building	1978
St. Peter Cathedral	Marquette	Building	2012
Stannard Rock Lighthouse	Lake Superior	Building	1973
State House of Correction and Branch Prison	Marquette	Building	1977
Truck Line Bridge No. 1	Michigamme Township	Structure	1999
Upper Peninsula Brewing Company Building	Marquette	Building	1980
Vista Theater	Negaunee	Building	2005

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Marquette was formed in 1843 (1843-03-09) from Chippewa, Michilimackinac.

MARQUETTE created from CHIPPEWA, MICHILIMACKINAC (now MACKINAC), and Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Marquette County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
136	2,821	25,394	41,239	45,786	47,144	47,654	56,154	74,101	64,634	66,017

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

25 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 25 of 25 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bakkala Cemetery	46.32354	-87.52819
Big Bay Cemetery	46.82063	-87.73583
Champion Cemetery	46.51179	-87.9653
Clarksburg Cemetery	46.49166	-87.84999
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery	46.35301	-87.22095
Forest Home Cemetery	46.03732	-87.44526
Green Garden / Saint Paul's Lutheran Cemetery	46.43472	-87.27322
Gwinn Cemetery	46.28855	-87.44041
Haglund Cemetery	46.38567	-87.2309
Hillview Cemetery	46.18022	-87.22291
Holy Cross Cemetery	46.56545	-87.41858
Humboldt Cemetery	46.49215	-87.93235
Ishpeming Cemetery	46.50769	-87.66874
Kultilahti Cemetery	None	None
Lakeview Cemetery	46.53076	-88.11541
Negaunee Cemetery	46.51925	-87.55341
Northland Chapel Gardens Cemetery	46.53902	-87.50157
Old Catholic Cemetery	46.5269	-87.40529
Park Cemetery	46.54887	-87.40514
Republic Cemetery	46.40749	-87.96749
Riverview Cemetery	46.07241	-87.59978
Sacred Heart Cemetery	46.51919	-87.98145
Saint Pauls Cemetery	46.43494	-87.27348
United Methodist Church Cemetery	46.37878	-87.24104
West Branch Cemetery	46.36215	-87.27847

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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