Name: Heritage Park land transaction completed for Beaver Island Bicentennial project, 1975
Start: 1975-07
End: 1975-07
Location: Beaver Island

Heritage Park land transaction completed for Beaver Island Bicentennial project, 1975

Also Mabel and A. J. Roy Heritage Park transaction · 1975 Heritage Park lease completion

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TypeEvent

Date1975-07

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1975-07
Kind: Property transfer
Where: Beaver Island
Participants: A. J. Roy, Sr. (namesake) · Mabel Roy (namesake)
Carried out by: Township of Saint James · Beaver Island Historical Society
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: heritagegovernancetourismcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The July 1975 Beaver Beacon reports that St. James Township completed a transaction with the Beaver Island Historical Society to lease land for a Heritage Park. It says a sign would soon identify the location as Mabel and A. J. Roy Heritage Park.

Evidence and limits

This is a completion report for the transaction, not the executed lease, surveyed parcel, construction record, or proof that the sign was erected. It supersedes the April report’s proposal-stage status only for the reported transaction, not for every planned park improvement.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, July 1975, “Beaver Island Bicentennial” report.
Reports that St. James Township completed a transaction with the Historical Society to lease land for a Heritage Park, and that a sign would soon be erected at the Mabel and A. J. Roy Heritage Park location. It gives no executed instrument, parcel number, survey, construction record, or sign photograph. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, July 1975, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue confirms the completed-transaction and planned-sign report. The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and does not expand source-specific claims
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Beaver Island Archive, “Heritage Park land transaction completed for Beaver Island Bicentennial project, 1975”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-heritage-park-lease-completed-1975/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1975, “Beaver Island Bicentennial” report. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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