Fox Islands corpus record: Gospel Herald 1847 (undated source)

Summary

This source-body record preserves one locally grounded Fox Islands mention. It is an evidence node, not an event claim: generic references remain generic unless a separate curated activity article names a source-specific activity.

Indexed context

nts, but its pineries arc very valuable, and the soil is good. It has a beautiful little vlake within it, and has a beautiful harbor, where steam- boats lay. ng iinst the bank without wharves, the water being 10 feet deep only’ 18 feet from shore, and 50 feet in the width of a boat. The fishing stations are principally on small is- lands of from 40 to 300 acres lying around the | larger Islands. We are in hopes to push over j on the Fox Islands early in the spring, before f any body else gets there, and to buy -out the ;j establishment on the Manitous soon. 1 * On these Islands there are no .poor. Land is distributed to ail according to their wants. \ All the necessary measures will be taken to ^ make the titles inalienable, so that none shall ever become landless. By this means, howev- | er poor any one may become, a few years of industry will make him well off. There can b

Scope and limits

The audit classified this body as local because it uses a directional Fox name or a Michigan/Beaver cue. Exact-body deduplication suppresses only byte-identical mirrors; alternate OCR editions may remain separate. Check the cited source before making a historical claim.

See also

• Beaver Island archipelago