Marinette

History

The site of Marinette was first settled by a small Algonquin band of Menominee people, referred to by the neighboring Ojibwe as "the wild rice people" for their staple crop. The band consisted of 40 to 80 men and their families. They lived at the mouth of the Menominee River in the 17th and 18th centuries, which, according to their creation story, was the tribe's place of origin. Before 1830, French Canadians established a fur trading post at the settlement. The first European settler was Stanislaus Chappu, also known as Chappee. After the War of 1812, the United States took over this area and the fur trade. They refused to license Canadian traders to operate on the American side of the border, although prior to the war, they and the Americans had easily passed back and forth across the border. John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company became most prominent in the region, although the fur trade was declining after 1830. In the late 19th century, the city developed rapidly as a port and processing area 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. In 1853, the population was 478; by 1860 the number of people in the growing community had reached 3,059. Due to the lumbering boom, between 1890 and 1900, the population more than doubled from 7,710 to its peak of 16,195. At that time, it was the tenth-largest city in Wisconsin. It had a wide variety of businesses and a new courthouse, city hall, opera house, two hospitals, a street railway, more than a dozen hotels and boarding houses, thirty saloons, and major industries, including the Marinette Iron Works, Marinette Flour Mill, the A.W. Stevens farm implement company, and the M & M Paper Company. cast and…

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  4,409
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  3,775
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  3,467
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  3,453
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  3,438
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  3,403
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,997
• American herring gull, Smithsonian Gull

  Larus smithsonianus Coues, 1862 · Aves
  2,568

Largest nearby schools

• Marinette High
  High · Marinette · 635 students · 15.1:1 ratio
• Peshtigo Elementary
  Elementary · Peshtigo · 573 students · 12.7:1 ratio
• Marinette Middle
  Middle · Marinette · 567 students · 13.5:1 ratio
• Marinette Intermediate
  Elementary · Marinette · 365 students · 14.6:1 ratio
• Marinette Primary
  Elementary · Marinette · 352 students · 15.3:1 ratio
• Peshtigo High
  High · Peshtigo · 339 students · 16.1:1 ratio
• Peshtigo Middle
  Middle · Peshtigo · 167 students · 13.9:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.9 — 2024-08-02
  38 km ESE of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin