MARQUETTE — Marquette Branch Prison once had factories that made everything from cigars to snow fences. But the biggest, and ultimately most important industry, was agriculture, with hundreds of inmates producing food not just for themselves but for other institutions throughout the state ...
QUESTION: Who was the first European to land on soil that would eventually become Michigan? A) Father Jacques Marquette B) Etienne Brule C) Samuel de Champlain D) Louis Joliet ANSWER: B. Etienne Brule, in 1621.
MARQUETTE — Today, the building houses a personal training center. But for approximately 15 years, it was the home of one of the most popular college bars in Marquette history… The Alibi. Not a lot of pictures or physical documentation exists of the Alibi, probably because the people who ...
QUESTION: How many saloons are listed in Polk’s 1916-1917 Marquette City and County Directory shortly before the county went dry? A. 28 B. 54 C. 78 D. 93 ANSWER: C, 78
