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Recordings of previous live events may be viewed at the bottom of this page, or purchased on our Digital Media page.
Pieces of the Past - Jim Koski Video Stories
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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 Marketplace of South Marquette
The Iceman Cometh
A Ghost Story
The Evolving Organism That is Marquette: Then & Now Shots
Hogan Families
What's in a Name? Or Three? Sawyer, Gwinn, Van Riper
Three Buildings in Two Years 1927-29
Ore Dock No. 6 in Marquette's Lower Harbor
Hear it from an Iron Ranger! Jerry Sullivan
From Four Students to Fire
The Old Scent of Bunny Bread
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The Boy Who Turned to Stone
Ishpeming's Recent Recognition: 3 Sons
Down the Whetstone
Pieces of the Past Prohibition
50 Years There and Back
"Fall" into Main Street.
Piling On
One Deadly Day
Standpipe Lore
Long Gone Buildings
Musical Marquette
Company Houses at the Furnace Location
The School on the Hill: Howard Frobel
Palestra Memories
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Awww, Goosefeathers!
Where'd We Put That Dock?
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How not to build a school… and missing one.
Shaping with Rail
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A Coach of All, A Memorial for All
Marquette the Statue, the Name, the Man
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Our First Parking Garage.
Is the Safe Safe?
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That was Once a School?
Jim Mourns the Trestle
The Corner of Fourth and Wow!
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A Day Hopefully Unlike Any Other
That's One Way to Tune a Piano
Forgotten Founding Father Funding
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Fire Takes the Sandstone Nester Building
A Persistent Parish
The Nine Lives of Sandstone
Bumming in Bum's Jungle, as Long as You're Not a Bum
Marquette's Very Own Sports Superstar
An Iconic "Lost Building" of Marquette
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Two Bars, One Building, in Two Minutes
From Coal to Leisure
The Brookton Murder
A Zoo, a Streetcar and a Pool Walk Out to an Island…
Iron Ore, Lumber and… Conservation Officers?
Fate of Fire and Fine Art
The Twice Built House
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The History Center would like to thank Jim Koski for sharing these fantastic videos with us. Thanks for bringing history alive, Jim!
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: