Menominee, Michigan
Leaving Menominee to the north on Highway 41, the traveller passes this neglected marker hidden among the weeds under cedar trees on the west side of the road directly in front of some houses. It is one of several monuments erected by Marinette Daily Eagle editor Frank Noyes in the 1930s. This marker commemorates the line exactly halfway between the Equator and North Pole.
Frank Noyes placed two other monuments in the area: One several miles directly west near Beaver, WI also marks the Half Way point, and another farther south on Hwy 41 near Oconto, WI marks the 45th Parallel.
The plaque reads:
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North Latitude 45° 8' 45.7" North Pole Equator Erected by |
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