The Marquette Bypass was opened in November 1963 as a four-lane expressway south of downtown Marquette at a cost of $ 1.7 million ( equivalent to $ in ) . Washington and Front streets in Marquette were redesignated as Bus . US 41 at this time . While the expressway was being built , a large vein of jasper exposed , and gifts fashioned from the mineral were presented to local and state politicians . A set of cufflinks to be given to President John F. Kennedy was never presented because he was killed in Dallas just hours after the Marquette Bypass opened to traffic
was killed in Dallas
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
U.S. Route 41 in Michigan