If you walk around the city of Marquette and look at all the builds, most of them are built from sandstone. The exact sandstone is from Jacobsville, Michigan which is about two and a half hours from Marquette, in the Keweenaw Peninsula. I grew up 20 miles away from Jacobsville, and hearing this was very shocking and interesting.
The formation of this sandstone lies southeast of the Keweenaw Fault and south of Lake Superior. The stone was extracted by 32 quarries throughout the Upper Peninsula between 1870 and 1915. It is ideal for builds because of its strength, durability and aesthetic appeal.
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