Pere Marquette Historic Site

Designated as a landmark of the City of Milwaukee in 1972, commemorating the place where Father Marquette, French Jesuit missionary, explorer of the Mississippi Valley and Lake Michigan, camped with two companions on November 23-27, 1674.

Marker is at the intersection of Old World Third Street and West State Street, on the right when traveling north on Old World Third Street.

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