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Pieces of the Past - Jim Koski Video Stories
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We've loaded 50+ more Pieces of the Past videos onto a special YouTube playlist. Click here to find the rest of Jim's gems.
These are short video stories of Marquette. Some of the tales are famous, some are not, but all of them are interesting, at least to me.
Many of the pictures and materials come from the History Center's John M. Longyear Research Library. A few are my own. And others come from the amazing collection of Jack Deo & Superior View Studios, who's graciously allowed us to use them. If you like what you see, feel free to join us the next time we're giving a tour or putting on a program at the History Center. Or - since you're already here - maybe just make a donation. Either way, you're helping the History Center continue to bring the history of the area to life. Thanks. - Jim Ore Dock No. 6 in Marquette's Lower Harbor
Marquette the Statue, the Name, the Man
The History Center would like to thank Jim Koski for sharing these fantastic videos with us. Thanks for bringing history alive, Jim!
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Pieces of the Past Prohibition
50 Years There and Back
Lower Harbor
That's One Way to Tune a Piano
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Season 1: Long Gone Schools (part 1) ● Long Gone Schools (part 2) ● An Easter Disaster (Nester Building) ● DSS&A Dock Killer ● A Fire & A Mystery (Hotel Marquette) ● The Longyear Mansion ● A Bloody Murder (Brookton Dance Club) ● A Day at the Island (Presque Isle) ● Kaye Hall ● Marquette's Sports Superstar (Gus Sonnenberg) ● Two Legendary Bars ● Sandstone That Lives On ● One Church, Three Buildings ● "Bum's Jungle" ● Lower Harbor ● Dec 17th, 1905 (Powder Mill Explosion) ● Forgotten Founding Father (Philo Everett) ● Fourth and Wow ● Marquette's Welcome Sign ● More Long Gone Schools ● Missing Dock ● Marquette Opera House ● Spring Street Hotel ● Roger Keast (Memorial Field) ● Father Marquette Statue ● Savings Bank Building ● Hotel Superior ● East Main Street, Marquette
Season 2: Evolving Marquette: Then & Now Shots ◼︎ Hogan Families ◼︎ The "Church" of North Marquette (The Palestra) ◼︎ The School on the Hill ◼︎ Company Housing (Cliff Dow Plant) ◼︎ Musical Marquette ◼︎ Bunny Bread ◼︎ DSS&A Dock No. 6 ◼︎ Iconic Marquette Buildings ◼︎ Long Gone Buildings ◼︎ Standpipe Lore ◼︎ The Iron Rangers (Jerry Sullivan Interview) ◼︎ A Deadly Day ◼︎ The Iceman Cometh (McCarty's Cove) ◼︎ Famous Names of Marquette County ◼︎ Piling On (Docks) ◼︎ Marketplace of South Marquette ◼︎ A Park Cemetery Ghost
Season 3: Shenanigans at Flanigan's ❁ The Beard Contest ❁ The Life Saving Service ❁ Fill it Up ❁ A Downtown Legend (Charlie Pong) ❁ The McKinneys - Big Bay's Big Loss ❁ The 3 Sons of Ishpeming ❁ The Boy Who Turned to Stone (Will Adams) ❁ Let's All Go to the Mall ❁ The Streetcar ❁ Five for Fighting (Hockey History) ❁ The Legacy of the WPA ❁ A Unique Little Store (Prison Gift Shop) ❁ The Orphanage ❁ Who's on First? (Abbott & Costello) ❁ Down the Whetstone ❁ 50 Years of the Ever-Changing Marquette ❁ Prohibition (Marquette Bootleggers)
Season 4: The Story of a Picture (part 1) ✦ The Courthouse ✦ The First Baptist Church ✦ Tip Off at Teal Lake ✦ Downhill Racers ✦ An Unsolved Mystery ✦ Famous Names of NMU ✦ Dance the Night Away ✦ The Night it Rained ✦ Poetry on Ice ✦ Social Groups ✦ Fires of Front Street ✦ Murder on the Plains ✦ Up & Down the Dial ✦ Happy Birthday (Marquette)! ✦ To Spit or Not to Spit ✦ The Story of a Picture (part 2)
Season 2: Evolving Marquette: Then & Now Shots ◼︎ Hogan Families ◼︎ The "Church" of North Marquette (The Palestra) ◼︎ The School on the Hill ◼︎ Company Housing (Cliff Dow Plant) ◼︎ Musical Marquette ◼︎ Bunny Bread ◼︎ DSS&A Dock No. 6 ◼︎ Iconic Marquette Buildings ◼︎ Long Gone Buildings ◼︎ Standpipe Lore ◼︎ The Iron Rangers (Jerry Sullivan Interview) ◼︎ A Deadly Day ◼︎ The Iceman Cometh (McCarty's Cove) ◼︎ Famous Names of Marquette County ◼︎ Piling On (Docks) ◼︎ Marketplace of South Marquette ◼︎ A Park Cemetery Ghost
Season 3: Shenanigans at Flanigan's ❁ The Beard Contest ❁ The Life Saving Service ❁ Fill it Up ❁ A Downtown Legend (Charlie Pong) ❁ The McKinneys - Big Bay's Big Loss ❁ The 3 Sons of Ishpeming ❁ The Boy Who Turned to Stone (Will Adams) ❁ Let's All Go to the Mall ❁ The Streetcar ❁ Five for Fighting (Hockey History) ❁ The Legacy of the WPA ❁ A Unique Little Store (Prison Gift Shop) ❁ The Orphanage ❁ Who's on First? (Abbott & Costello) ❁ Down the Whetstone ❁ 50 Years of the Ever-Changing Marquette ❁ Prohibition (Marquette Bootleggers)
Season 4: The Story of a Picture (part 1) ✦ The Courthouse ✦ The First Baptist Church ✦ Tip Off at Teal Lake ✦ Downhill Racers ✦ An Unsolved Mystery ✦ Famous Names of NMU ✦ Dance the Night Away ✦ The Night it Rained ✦ Poetry on Ice ✦ Social Groups ✦ Fires of Front Street ✦ Murder on the Plains ✦ Up & Down the Dial ✦ Happy Birthday (Marquette)! ✦ To Spit or Not to Spit ✦ The Story of a Picture (part 2)
Sugarloaf Bart King Monument Centennial
This event was held Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. at Sugarloaf Mountain.
Back in the late fall of 1921, a group of community members and Boy Scouts finished a stone monument on the top of Sugarloaf Mountain. This monument stands today, 100 years later, to recognize a WWI soldier from Marquette, Bart King. We commemorated his life and sacrifice during WWI along with the volunteers who built this monument including stone mason Harmidas Dupras, and scout leaders such as Perry Hatch, who organized the large effort of hauling stones and supplies.
Back in the late fall of 1921, a group of community members and Boy Scouts finished a stone monument on the top of Sugarloaf Mountain. This monument stands today, 100 years later, to recognize a WWI soldier from Marquette, Bart King. We commemorated his life and sacrifice during WWI along with the volunteers who built this monument including stone mason Harmidas Dupras, and scout leaders such as Perry Hatch, who organized the large effort of hauling stones and supplies.
Archaeology at Camp Au Train with Dr. LouAnn Wurst
The MRHC's first virtual program was held on Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Watch the recording of the presentation here: