Marinette, Wisconsin Marinette, Wisconsin Location of Marinette, Wisconsin Location of Marinette, Wisconsin County Marinette Marinette is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. It is positioned on the south bank of the Menominee River, at its mouth at Green Bay, part of Lake Michigan; to the north is Stephenson Island (Wisconsin), part of the town/city preserved as park. During the lumbering boom of the late 19th century, Marinette became the tenth-largest town/city in Wisconsin in 1900, with its peak populace of 16,195.
Marinette is the principal town/city of the Marinette, WI MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which contains all of Marinette County, Wisconsin and Menominee County, Michigan.
Menominee, Michigan is athwart the river to the north, and the metros/cities are connected by three bridges.
Menominee, Michigan, and Marinette are sometimes described as "twin cities." The town and county were titled Marinette after Marie Antoinette Chevalier (1793, Langlade County, Wisconsin 1865, Green Bay, Wisconsin), an influential Metis woman who ran a trading post near the mouth of the Menominee River.
In 1823 John and Marie Antoinette came to the settlement that became known as Marinette.
In 1987 her descendants had Chevalier reinterred in a sarcophagus at the Forest Home Mausoleum in Marinette.
Marinette County Courthouse The site of Marinette was first settled by a small Algonquin band of Menominee citizens , known to the neighboring Ojibwe as "the wild rice citizens " for their staple crop.
After the War of 1812, the United States took over this region and the fur trade, refusing to license Canadian traders, with whom the Americans had previously passed back and forth athwart the border.
In the late 19th century, the town/city developed quickly as a port and refining region for lumber harvested in the interior.
Logs were floated down the Menominee River and shipped out on Green Bay to communities around the Great Lakes and to the East.
Due to the lumbering boom, between 1890 and 1900, the populace more than doubled from 7,710 to its peak of 16,195. At that time, it was the tenth-largest town/city in Wisconsin.
"new courthouse, town/city hall, opera home, two hospitals, a street stockyards , more than a dozen hotels and boarding homes, thirty saloons, and primary industries, including the Marinette Iron Works, Marinette Flour Mill, the A.W.
Five bridges cross the river to connect Marinette to Menominee, Michigan.
Marinette has a primary paper foundry (Kimberly Clark), and other plants such as Marinette Marine, a shipyard owned by the Italian firm, Fincantieri; Ansul/Tyco, a manufacturer of fire protection systems; Waupaca Foundry, KS Kolbenschmidt US Inc.
The governmental center of county contains what is now the easterly neighborhood of Menekaunee, formerly an autonomous village. The first European-American pioneer came to Menekaunee in 1845. For some time Menekaunee was also known as East Marinette. The name Menekaunee is of Menominee origin, from Minikani Se'peu, meaning 'village or town river'. Marinette is at 45 5'31" North, 87 37'43" West (45.091983, -87.628714). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.13 square miles (21.06 km2), of which, 6.83 square miles (17.69 km2) is territory and 1.30 square miles (3.37 km2) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 10,968 citizens , 4,934 homeholds, and 2,801 families living in the city.
There were 4,934 homeholds of which 27.9% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 37.4% were married couples residing together, 13.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 6.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.2% were non-families.
As of the census of 2000, there are 11,749 citizens , 5,095 homeholds, and 2,975 families living in the city.
In the city, the populace is spread out with 23.7% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.7% who are 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city is $31,743, and the median income for a family is $41,996.
No interstate highways pass through Marinette.
Greyhound Bus and Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach service Marinette.
Historically, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway served Marinette.
There is presently no traveler rail service in Marinette.
The Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad Company also provides freight barns service to Marinette by means of an Agreement with CN to use CN trackage from Escanaba to Marinette.
The E&LS line from Wausaukee to Marinette is presently not much used by E&LS to serve Marinette, but is property of E&LS, on the former Milwaukee Road (Chicago, Milwaukee, St.
The nearest airport is the Menominee-Marinette Twin County Airport in Menominee, Michigan.
Historically, a ferry connected the twin town/city of Menominee, Michigan to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
There is presently no ferry service to Marinette or Menominee.
USS Fort Worth sliding into the Menominee River amid her christening ceremony at the Marinette Marine shipyard on 4 December 2010 The Marinette region is home to a range of industries, including ship assembly, auto parts, chemicals, helicopters, aircraft components, pressure vessels, and paper making.
Marinette is also a county-wide community care center.
The Marinette Menominee Area Chamber of Commerce plays an active part in region tourism accomplishments, and provides venues for small businesses, young employees and experienced women to network and learn.
Median homehold income in Marinette is $31,700, compared with $43,800 for the state of Wisconsin. Most housing in Marinette was constructed amid the historical years of expansion of the early 20th century.
These numbers are about twice the rate of older homes in the rest of the state of Wisconsin.
The median value of owner-occupied housing in Marinette is $58,100, compared to the state average of $112,200. Marinette is served by the Marinette School District.
Marinette High School shares a historic football rivalry with the neighboring high school in Menominee, Michigan.
Parochial education in Marinette is provided by the Catholic St.
Marinette is home to the University of Wisconsin Marinette, a two-year ground of the University of Wisconsin Colleges.
UW Marinette produces Theatre on the Bay, a improve theatre program. The town/city is also home to Northeast Wisconsin Technical College-Marinette Campus.
Marinette shares a hospital, improve foundation, journal and chamber of commerce with Menominee.
Marinette's everyday journal is the Eagle - Herald. It was formed as a result of a consolidation between the Marinette Eagle-Star and the Menominee Herald-Leader.
Printing facilities are at the former Eagle-Star locale in Marinette.
Owned by Bliss Communications Inc., the Eagle - Herald has a circulation of just over 10,000. The paper traces its origins back to 24 June 1871, when the Marinette and Peshtigo Eagle was founded.
In 1903 the paper took over the Marinette North Star and retitled itself the Marinette Eagle-Star. The following airways broadcasts are licensed to Marinette: There are no broadcast tv stations transmitting in the Marinette micropolitan area.
Marinette City Hall and Police Department Marinette offers a range of recreational activities and primary affairs throughout the year.
Tourism is promoted by the Marinette Menominee Area Chamber of Commerce.
Marinette has 5 parks that offer sightseeing, fishing, sledding, cross-country skiing, swimming, tennis, ice skating, picnic areas, baseball, and hiking.
Marinette is positioned along the Menominee River and along Green Bay, a primary bay of Lake Michigan.
Visitors to the region are cautioned that county permits are not valid for use at the four town/city launches. Marinette Logging and Heritage Fest (which replaced the Annual 4 July Celebration in 2012) occurs in mid-July Sunset Concert Series, sponsored by the Marinette Menominee Area Chamber of Commerce and member businesses In 2003, the Pete Schwaba film The Godfather of Green Bay was shot in Marinette and its neighboring city, Menominee, Michigan.
Marie Antoinette Chevalier, daughter of a Menominee chief; she was an influential fur trader for whom this town/city was titled Mc - Gillan, Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin Interstate Bridge (Marinette, Wisconsin Menominee, Michigan) "City of Marinette".
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