Marquette High School is not in Marquette, Michigan, which one would naturally assume: Father Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) was the first European to visit what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois, but he never made it to Missouri.
It's in Chesterfield, but not Chesterfield, Virginia, which one would naturally assume. Chesterfield, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis on the St. Charles River, formed in 1988 by the merging of an unincorported area formerly occupied by the villages of Bellefontaine, Bonhomme, Hog Hollow, and Gumbo.
Leave it to Missouri to obfuscate. The school website leaves out any mention of the city or state. I only found out because when you search for Tucson, Arizona swim teams on Google Images, you get the Fort Zumwalt East High Swim Team in St. Peters, Missouri, which plays against Chesterfield.
I have a question about the one black wrestler on the Fort Zumwalt team going against the one black wrestler on the Marquette team.
In March 2019 a Marquette High School student posted an Instagram photo of herself in blackface. She claimed that it was just special effects makeup, and the school responded: "The incident did not take place on school property."
Later that month, students at Parkway Central High in Chesterfield posted a video laced wih racial slurs and threats, including chants of "slavery" and suggestions that all African-Ameicans should die. The school responded: "The students have received consequences."
Other than its obfuscating and racially suspect high schools (albeit with interesting wrestling techniques), Chesterfield is known for its gay botanist.
Faust Park (no connection to the German scientists who sold his soul to the devil) features a historic village (open March-July), a carousel, and the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House, home to 2,000 butterflies of 80 species. It's part of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, founded by Henry Shaw in 1858. Admission is free on July 24th to celebrate his birthday.
Henry Shaw (1800-1889) moved from Britain to St. Louis as a young man, and became so wealthy that he was able to retire at age 40 and devote the rest of his life to his interest in botany. Aside from the Botanical Gardens, he contributed to many other Missouri institutions. He has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame, along with Maya Angelou, Scott Bakula, T, S, Eliot, Vincent Price, and Tennessee Williams.
He never married; according to his biography, "he went to parties and balls occasionally,but he seemed to avoid making acquaintances among the girls; he avoided making female friends, fearful that he might fall in love."
Sure,that's one explanation for it
