Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Laura Chmielewski provided an introduction to Jacques Marquette and his family. In 1673, Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette and fur ...

The giant ore dock, which stretches out into the waters, is a potent symbol of a region and city founded on extraction.

In 1671, the French priest Jacques Marquette founded St. Ignace when he established a Jesuit mission to convert the local population to Catholicism. The town flourished and became the heart of New ...

May-September: Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet's exploration of the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan takes them by the future site of Chicago. Joliet reports that a canal connecting Lake ...

The Missouri name was initially recorded during an exploration down the Mississippi River by French missionary Jacques ...