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Marinette is a city in and the county seat of Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located upon the south bank of the Menominee River, at its mouth at Green Bay, part of Lake Michigan; to the north is Stephenson Island, part of the city preserved as park. During the lumbering boom of the late 19th century, Marinette became the tenth-largest city in Wisconsin in 1900, reaching a zenith population of 16,195.

Marinette is the principal city of the Marinette, Wisconsin–Michigan Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes whatever of Marinette County, Wisconsin and Menominee County, Michigan. The population was 10,968 at the 2010 census. Menominee, Michigan is across the river to the north, and the cities are amalgamated by three bridges. Menominee and Marinette are sometimes described as the “twin cities” of the Menominee River.

The town and county were named Marinette after Marie Antoinette Chevalier (1793, Langlade County, Wisconsin – 1865, Green Bay, Wisconsin), an influential Métis girl who ran a trading post near the mouth of the Menominee River. Of Menominee and French Canadian ancestry, she came to be known as “Queen Marinette.” Her dad was Bertrand Chevalier, a British trader of French Canadian ancestry, who was lively with an upfront trading make known at Green Bay. Her mommy was Lucy, the daughter of Menominee chief, Wauba-Shish (Great Marten).