5 mi. E. of Michigan Island, Lake Superior, La Pointe, Wisconsin. County/parish: Ashland.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 13, 2008. NRIS 08000027.
Part of Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS (NRIS 64500716).
1 contributing site.The SS Marquette was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter built in 1881, that sank on Lake Superior, five miles east of Michigan Island, Ashland County, Wisconsin, Apostle Islands, United States on October 15, 1903. On the day of February 13, 2008 the remains of the Marquette were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106778732