- Dates
- circa 1919 – circa 1927
- Kind
- Publication
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritagefamilycommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In a letter to the editor, Jesse M. Cole remembered childhood on Beaver Island and identified his mother, Julia Cole, with the Nomad post office from roughly 1919 to 1927.
Evidence and limits
This is a first-person retrospective. The dates and post-office description remain source-qualified pending postal or property records.
Sources
- Cole recalls eating wild strawberries west of Lake Geneserath and says his mother Julia Cole kept the Nomad post office on Beaver Island from approximately 1919 to 1927. This is a retrospective memory, not a postal appointment or property record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1981-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page combined March and April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the letter.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-03_Beaver-Beacon
Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Jesse Cole recalls Beaver Island childhood and Julia Cole’s Nomad post office”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jesse-cole-memory-letter-1981/, accessed [date], citing Jesse M. Cole, letter to the editor, Beaver Beacon, March & April 1981. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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