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Museums & History<br />
MARINETTE HISTORICAL LOGGING MUSEUM<br />
Stephenson Island, 715-732-0831<br />
By Frank Lauerman<br />
Marinette’s Museum is located on Stephenson<br />
Island, a City park, and just off the US Highway 41<br />
Interstate Bridge in downtown.<br />
In addition to our unique outdoor horse-drawn<br />
log display, we feature an authentic 1888 Sawmill<br />
as well as a diorama of a complete lumbering<br />
camp. Our museum is a history lesson of days<br />
gone by as well as our local history. Our Gift Shop<br />
has the only selection of local souvenir postcards,<br />
magnets and books about our history and QUEEN<br />
MARINETTE. Her competence will show you why she<br />
was so much more than the operator of her Trading<br />
Post. Our volunteer tour <strong>guide</strong>s will take you through,<br />
including an example display of her business. We are the<br />
‘LOCAL TREASURE CHEST.’<br />
Call 715-732-0831 for hours.<br />
• 18<br />
Who<br />
was Queen<br />
Marinette?<br />
Enjoy it with us!<br />
Both Marinette County<br />
and the City of<br />
Marinette are named<br />
for a shrewd business<br />
woman who lived<br />
a “colorful” life and<br />
bore a “royal” name.<br />
“Queen” Marinette<br />
was not of royal blood<br />
but the granddaughter<br />
of an Indian chief and<br />
the daughter of a French fur<br />
trader named Bartland or<br />
Bartholomew Chevalier.<br />
Marinette Chevalier, whose<br />
first name means “Little<br />
Marie” in French, is believed<br />
to have been in 1793 at<br />
Post Lake, a tributary of the<br />
wandering Peshtigo River,<br />
in what is now known as<br />
Langlade County.<br />
Very little is known of her<br />
early years. Some say her<br />
stately bearing merited<br />
her the nickname of “Queen”.<br />
Others speculate that the name<br />
“Marinette” is a contraction<br />
of Marie Antoinette and that<br />
Queen Marinette bears the<br />
name of the ill-fated consort to<br />
Louis XVI of France. The other<br />
Marie Antoinette was beheaded<br />
in Paris the year that Queen<br />
Marinette was born.<br />
Marinette was wed to John<br />
Jacobs Jr., a Canadian fur trader,<br />
who lived at Mackinac but<br />
bartered with tribes throughout<br />
the region. He had been in her<br />
father’s business as a partner.<br />
It is said that Jacobs abandoned<br />
his wife on one of their trips to<br />
the trading post at Mackinac,<br />
possibly in 1823. Marinette<br />
wasted no time finding a<br />
common-law husband, another<br />
fur trader named William<br />
Farnsworth, by some accounts<br />
her husband’s business partner.
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