A hometown site from the early web
MarineOnStCroix.com first appears in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in January 1999. For the next decade it was a homemade, generous, very local website, built and kept up by a Marine resident who did web design. Its tagline was a play on the old hymn: “Amazing Grace — Amazing Place.”
The archive holds 412 different pages from the site. They read like a village scrapbook:
- Fourth of July parades photographed frame by frame in 2001, 2002 and 2005 — floats, fire engines, kids on horses, and the ice-cream line afterward.
- Memorial Day, the village festival and a spring “Mill Day” with a maypole and Morris dancers in 2002.
- “Envision,” a long series of pages on a community planning effort: the village’s history, the river, the state park, roads, schools and green space, as residents imagined Marine’s future.
- Galleries of local painters, church news, job listings, a village calendar and a map.
- Birthday parties, football games on Thanksgiving morning and farewells to longtime residents — the ordinary life of a small town.
From about 2011 the homepage changed to a catalog of greeting cards and notecards printed with scenes of Marine, and it stayed that way, little changed, into the 2020s.
A new chapter
The site you’re reading is a new, independent guide built on the same address. We haven’t republished the old pages — they belong to their author and the people in them — but we’ve kept faith with what they did: help people know and enjoy Marine.
Every old address still works. The 412 archived URLs now redirect to the closest page on the new site, so a link from a 2002 parade page leads to our Fourth of July guide, and an old “Envision” history page leads to the village history. If you have memories, photos or corrections to share, we’d love to hear from you.
You can still browse the original pages on the Internet Archive.
Last reviewed October 1, 2026.
