Marquette Maritime Museum Marquette Maritime Museum Marquette Maritime Museum - a memorial to WWII Submariners An Ice Buoy - designed to stay upright in ice floe conditions The Marquette Maritime Museum is co-located with the Marquette Coast Guard Station U.S. Coast Guard boat The quarters for the Marquette Coast Guard base commander The is the Marquette Lighthouse. It housed two lighthouse tending families. It is still an active lighthouse. The Coast Guard manages the light, the Marquette Maritime Museum is restoring the lighthouse and gives tours. A painting of the lighthouse View from the lighthouse The walkway from the lighthouse out to where the steam powered foghorns used to be. View from the lighthouse View from the lighthouse View from the lighthouse of the lower harbor A Nina replica visiting Marquette The old Ore Loading Dock in the lower Marquette harbor - The new Ore Load Dock in the upper Marquette harbor. The new Ore Loading dock is used because it fits the longer ore carring ships of the Great Lakes Note the train ore cars on top. The cars are placed ontop, the load is dumped into hoppers in the Dock. Then chutes are lowered into the ore carrier ships to lade the ore. Note the train ore cars on top. The cars are placed ontop, the load is dumped into hoppers in the Dock. Then chutes are lowered into the ore carrier ships to lade the ore.
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