Fox Islands corpus record: sn84024735 1856 04 15 ed1 p2 (1856-04-15)

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

pent by a man on snow shoes eighty miles and back at my private expense, I do not get off but one or two a month. Our winter so far has been very fine, though a little cooler than usual, but I the field of ice is immense, beyond all example. 1 think there is two thousand sijuare miles more of ic<% ubrth of the Mnniton Islands than have been know* before within the date of the earliest tradition. Nine feet of ice was found by cutting through# off South Fox Island, where ice was never seen before. This is to be attributed as much to the stillness of the water as the severity of the cold. Very little ice is banked. Most of it remains undisturbed where first J formed.“ MTV ,?4\D STATE NEWS. Dtsxsrh*x> Kikk ?Oii Sunday morning. about o’elnck. nconflngrniiou occurred iu this city, resulting in the complete destruction of Christ Church (Episcopal) with considerable ntiiouut of valuable property in its immediat

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
• South Fox Island