- Date
- 2006-12
- Kind
- Transportation
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationmaritimegovernmentinfrastructurecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The December 2006 Beaver Beacon reported that a proposed ferry line between Frankfort and Wisconsin was stalled because the Michigan endpoint lacked a dock. The proposed operator had purchased a Great Lakes-built ferry but did not want to finance the dock as well.
Evidence limits
This is a contemporaneous report of a stalled proposal; it does not establish a final route, service, vessel deployment, or effect on Beaver Island.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- "A New Ferry to our South - or not," Beaver Beacon, December 2006.Reports that a proposed Frankfort-Wisconsin ferry using a Great Lakes-built vessel stalled because Frankfort had not provided a Michigan-end dock. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the ferry proposal report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-12_Beaver-Beacon
Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Frankfort-Wisconsin ferry proposal stalls over Michigan dock, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-frankfort-wisconsin-ferry-proposal-2006/, accessed [date], citing "A New Ferry to our South - or not," Beaver Beacon, December 2006. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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