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An unidentified group builds a makeshift bridge over Iron Ore Creek

Also Iron Ore Creek Seven bridge report 2012

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Locator map: Iron Ore Creek highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Iron Ore CreekLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeEvent
Date2012-09
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Iron Ore Creek highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Iron Ore CreekLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
2012-09
Kind
Construction
Where
Iron Ore Creek
Eras
Modern era
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infrastructurerecreationconservationcommunity
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The September 2012 Beaver Beacon reports that an unidentified group called the “Iron Ore Creek Seven” built a makeshift bridge over Iron Ore Creek without permits. The article says petitions sought to preserve it while authorities considered removing it.

Evidence limits

The article does not identify the builders, establish the bridge’s final disposition, or provide a surveyed location.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, September 2012, "Bridging the Mighty Iron Ore."
    Describes a makeshift bridge built over Iron Ore Creek by the unidentified "Iron Ore Creek Seven" and the possibility that authorities might remove it. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2012-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held September issue scan confirms the bridge report and photographs.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2012-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “An unidentified group builds a makeshift bridge over Iron Ore Creek”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-iron-ore-creek-bridge-2012/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2012, "Bridging the Mighty Iron Ore." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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