St. Marie [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society

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St. Marie [origin of place name]

St. Marie [origin of place name] | Wisconsin Historical Society
Dictionary of Wisconsin History.

Col. Shaw... moved to the site of the old village of St. Marie called by Pere Marquette in his journal of his voyage to the Mississippi "Lacote Ste. Marie"; in English, St. Marie's hill or bluff.

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[Source: Green Lake, Marquette, and Waushara Counties, p. 286.]