- Date
- 1859-02-15
- Eras
- Strang era
- Concepts
- governancetoponymyhistoriography
- Within
- Garden Island
Summary
Michigan Local Act No. 194, approved 15 February 1859, set Hat, Hog, and Garden Islands apart from Peaine Township and organized them as Garden Island Township in Manitou County. The statute directed the first township meeting to the schoolhouse in the village of Peaine, on Garden Island.
The act is a dated legal attestation of both the township arrangement and the village name. It does not by itself identify people living in the village or resolve whether its name directly commemorated Chief Peaine.
Evidence and limits
The project holds a digitized 1859 session-law volume and a checked rendering of the relevant page, not the enrolled act, meeting minutes, a town plat, or an election return. The statute orders a first meeting; it is not evidence that the meeting occurred, of who attended, or of later government practice.
See also
Sources
- Checked page image. The act sets Hat, Hog and Garden Islands, then part of Peaine Township, off into Garden Island Township and directs the first township meeting to the schoolhouse in the village of Peaine on Garden Island. It does not identify the village’s residents, prove a relationship between the village name and Chief Peaine, establish a town plat or exact boundary geometry, or document the meeting’s occurrence.
- Held full 1,271-page volume. The relevant page is printed p. 546 / PDF p. 589.
- Project provenance sidecars for the held 1859 Michigan session-laws PDF and checked p. 546 rendering, retrieved 2 August 2026.Records Google Books identifier, retrieval, checksums, page correspondence, and page-image derivation. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Michigan Local Act No. 194 organizing Garden Island Township, 1859”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/michigan-local-act-garden-island-township-1859/, accessed [date], citing Michigan, *Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan* (Lansing: W.S. George, 1859), No. 194, §1, p. 546, approved 15 February 1859. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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