Marquette (Iowa)

Clayton County

19-49620

Marquette is a small town with the status of City on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Clayton County in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. The place was originally established as North McGregor. The settlement was built around the station of only less than two kilometers south McGregor and developed into an important railway junction. In 1874 it was named after the French missionary Jacques Marquette and formally registered as an independent settlement.

Since there were no bridges across the Mississippi River, in the beginning the cars had to be taken on a ferry across the river, where they were put back on rails in opposite Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. 1860 a pontoon bridge for rail traffic was built, which was the largest floating railway bridge in the world. Yet 1920 was the site of important goods station Iowa. In 1932, added a road bridge. The upkeep of the pontoons in the mid- 20th century to elaborate, they were dismantled in 1961 and set the rail traffic over the river and a passenger. The route along the west bank is for freight continues to operate. 1975 opened a new road bridge over which the U.S. Highway U.S. 18 connects the city to Prairie du Chien.

Marquette live on agriculture and tourism, in the resort, the oldest state-licensed casino Iowa is located in a paddle steamer on the river bank. The Marquette Depot Museum displays exhibits from the railway history of the place. Five kilometers north of the town is the Effigy Mounds National Monument, an archaeological site of Mounds -called artificial hills in the shape of animals, which were built between the years 700 and about 1050 of a prehistoric Native American culture.