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is a city in and the county seat of Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 11,749 at the 2000 census.
Marinette is the principal city of the Marinette, WI–MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Marinette County, Wisconsin and Menominee County, Michigan.
The name "Marinette" is said to have come from the name of an early fur-trader's common-law wife, Marie Antoinette Chevalier, a French and Native American woman who ran a trading post located near the mouth of the Menominee River and came to be known as "Queen Marinette."
Marinette was first settled by a small Algonquin tribe, then became a French fur trading post in the 1800s. In the late 1800s it experienced a "lumber boom" as a result of its location along the Menominee River and next to Green Bay. Lumbering to trail off at the turn of the twentieth century, but the town has continued to take advantage of its position along those bodies of water with major paper mills, and other plants such as Marinette Marine shipbuilding yard and Ansul, a manufacturer of fire protection systems.