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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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● Evolving Marquette: Then & Now Shots ● Hogan Families ● Long Gone Schools (part 1) ● The Church of North Marquette (Palestra) ● The School on the Hill ● Long Gone Schools (part 2) ● An Easter Disaster (Nester Building) ● DSS&A Dock Killer ● A Fire & A Mystery (Hotel Marquette) ● Shenanigans at Flanigan's ● The Beard Contest ● The Life Saving Service ● A Downtown Legend (Charlie Pong) ● Fill it Up ● The McKinney's - Big Bay's Big Loss ● The 3 Son's of Ishpeming ● The Boy Who Turned to Stone (Will Adams) ● Let's All Go to the Mall ● The Street Car ● 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) ● The Longyear Mansion ● A Bloody Murder (Brookton Dance Club) ● A Day at the Island (Presque Isle) ● Kaye Hall (at NMU) ● Marquette's Sports Superstar (Gus Sonnenberg) ● Two Legendary Bars ● Sandstone That Lives On ● Marquette's Sports Superstar (Gus Sonnenberg) ● Two Legendary Bars ● Sandstone That Lives On ● One Church, Three Buildings (Presbyterian) ● "Bums Jungle" ● Dec 17th, 1905 (Powder Mill Explosion) ● Forgotten Founding Father (Philo Everett) ● Fourth and Wow (Green Block) ● Marquette's Welcome Sign ● More Long Gone Schools ● Missing Dock ● Marquette Opera House ● Spring Street Hotels ● Roger Keast (and Memorial Field) ● Company Housing (Cliff Dow Plant) ● Musical Marquette ● Bunny Bread ● Savings Bank Building ● Hotel Superior ● Iconic Marquette Buildings ● Long Gone Buildings ● Standpipe Lore ● The Iron Rangers (Jerry Sullivan Interview) ● A Deadly Day (For Law Enforcement) ● Down the Whetstone ● The Iceman Cometh (McCarty's Cove) ● Famous Names of Marquette County ● Piling On (Docks) ● East Main Street, Marquette ● Marketplace of South Marquette ● A Park Cemetery Ghost ●
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: