Marinette County Centennial 1879 - 1979 -- This booklet was printed in 1979 to commemorate the county's centennial. It is chock full of people, places and things of interest.

• Historical Spotlights -- timeline of important events in the county's history.
• The First Courthouse
• The Townships and Communities (4 parts)
• First Meeting of Marinette County Board of Supervisors
• Population Figures
• Fishing
• Agriculture
• Medical and Hospital Care
• Industrial Beginnings: Logging and Lumbering
• Industrial Development
• Beginning of Transportation
• Education: Part I, Part II

The Story of "Queen Marinette" -- the remarkable woman for whom the county and city were named.

Logging Railroads in Marinette County from Timothy Sasse. (Be sure to visit the Florence County section also, since some of these lines overlapped.)

The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 -- a web site devoted to the nation's most disastrous forest fire, which covered much of what is now Marinette County.

A Brief History of Menekaunee

Historic Wausaukee Photographs

Name Index for I Lived at Peshtigo Harbor

© 2001 Deana C. Hipke