NMU’s Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center hosted a full day of presentations, and films to help Marquette residents better understand how the place they call “home” came to be.

Father Jacques Marquette, the man who gave Marquette its name, made an incredible mark not only on the Upper Peninsula, but throughout North America as well. The French Jesuit Missionary built an ...

Sunday, May 18 marks the 350th anniversary of the death of Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit priest who famously ...