Marinette
Marinette (mârĭnĕt'), city (1990 pop. 11,843), seat of Marinette co., NE Wis., on Green Bay at the mouth of the Menominee River; inc. 1887. A port of entry, it is the center of a tricity area embracing Peshtigo, Wis., and Menominee, Mich. Among the city's manufactures are consumer goods, auto parts, wood and paper products, and chemicals. Fur trading began there c.1795 and gave way to lumbering, which flourished until the 1930s. The city was named for a queen of the Menominee who established a trading post on the river and built the first frame house there.
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Marinette may refer to:
- Marinette, Arizona, a ghost town in Maricopa County
- Marinette, Nova Scotia, a community of the Halifax Regional Municipality in Canada
- Marinette, Wisconsin, a city in Wisconsin bordering Michigan
- Marinette County, Wisconsin, the county in the northeast corner of Wisconsin
- Marinette, a slang word used for United States female Marines during World War I[1]
- Marinette Yachts, a line of motor yachts built by Aluminum Cruisers Inc. until 1991
- Marinette (Vodou), a cruel and vicious loa in Haitian Vodou
- Marinette Pichon (born in 1975), a French football player
- USS Marinette (YTB-791), a 1967 large harbor tug
References
- ^ Linda Hewitt's Women Marines in World War I, (1974)
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(1997 Comedy Drama Film)
Menominee
(city, Michigan)
Volume III
(1996 Album by Georges Brassens)
Peshtigo
(city, historical event, United States)
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