MARQUETTE

city, seat (1851) of Marquette county, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S., on Lake Superior, overlooked by Sugar Loaf Mountain (north), 66 mi (106 km) north-northwest of Escanaba. Founded in 1849 as Worcester and renamed for Jacques Marquette, it became an important iron ore and lumber port. Manufactures include foundry and wood products and mining machinery. Other economic factors are the tourist trade and Northern Michigan University (1899). Marquette is a Roman Catholic diocesan seat (St. Peter's Cathedral, 1933). The city's Presque Isle Park is on a small wooded peninsula extending into the lake. Inc. village, 1859; city, 1871. Pop. (1990) 21,977.