Welcome to Marquette!!! Traditional Geocache
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Marquette is located directly across from Prairie du Chien,
Wisconsin, and the two cities are connected by U.S. Highway 18,
which crosses the river on the Marquette-Joliet Bridge. Effigy
Mounds National Monument and the Yellow River State Forest are a
few miles to the north. The city of McGregor, Iowa is located just
to the south. Marquette itself was originally incorporated as North
McGregor in 1874, and it served as a railroad terminus for its
southern neighbor. Along with McGregor, the city became a major hub
on the railroad, as grain from throughout Iowa and Minnesota was
sent through the city en route to Lake Michigan. Initially trains
had to be ferried across the river between Marquette and Prairie du
Chien, Wisconsin, in order to continue their journey, but this
system came to an end when Prairie du Chien businessman John Lawler
had a permanent pontoon bridge built to connect the two cities'
rail lines. Marquette subsequently became home to a major rail
yard, which even as late as 1920 was the busiest in Iowa, employing
400 people. Not too long afterwards, the railroad's significance
declined, the last passenger train stopped in Marquette in 1960,
and the pontoon bridge was disassembled in 1961. Today the city is
a tourist destination, most notable for the being home to an Isle
of Capri riverboat casino.
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