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Marquette Statue
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Statue of the monk with a cross in his left hand and his right hand upraised. Behind the statue is a plaque with a carving of an Indian in a canoe near a shoreline, as well as the title "Pere Marquette."Located in a park at the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway station. The students of Marquette High School raised the money for the monument.
1960
Borgeson, Richard C.
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WHi 53897
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