Perhaps one of the best things about this park is the wide ariety of beautifully maintaied flowers and plants. These alone will make your visit worthwhile.
Fr. Jacques Marquette Park is located in downtown Marquette, MI. Some maps refer to this wonderful spot as Lakeside Park but I feel that's a politically incorrect description. Below are words from the inscription near the statue. There's considerably more history on the Internet if you're interested.
Attention: I have placed a camo ammo can with lots of kids toys and swag elsewhere in this park. There is a note in the cache telling where the hidden ammo can is located. Please leave the card in the cache for the next person. And please return the cannister to its original location. The cannister is difficult to open and may need adult help.
As you can see from lined-out text above, this was a geocache for kids, until it disappeared. Bummer! But I have created seveal other caches for kids. See below clickable links:
Kids-Advanced Caching
Kids-Giants Foot Park
Kids-Pavilion Nort
Kids-Sigh Low
Kids-Papa Tom's
During the seventeenth century, dedicated Jesuit missionaries forged into the North American wilderness to live and work among the native peoples of the Great Lakes region. In September 1666, at age twenty-nine, Father Jacques Marquette arrived in Quebec. He then helped establish a mission in Sault Ste. Marie, worked at the Mission of Ste. Esprit in the Chequamegon Bay area, and founded a mission in St. Ignace. In 1673 Marquette and Louis Jolliet explored the Mississippi River as far south as the Arkansas River. Two years later Marquette fulfilled his promise to return to the Illinois people. Illness cut short his ministry and on May 18, 1675, he died while returning to St. Ignace. In 1677 Odawa Indians returned his remains to St. Ignace for burial beneath the floor of his mission.
Below is a picture of the statue and placque. There is a bench nearby that beckons you to sit and enjoy the view and peacefulness of the area. But also to appreciated the hard times our forefathers experienced to get us here.
