- Date
- 1911-01-28
- Kind
- Disaster
- Where
- Saint James
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- disastercommerceconstruction
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The retrospective column reports that the Beaver Island Lumber Company sawmill at St. James was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening, January 28, 1911. It says the fire began in the filing room, the property was insured, and the company still had several years of timber operations ahead.
Evidence limits
This record is based on a later reprint of a newspaper report. It does not establish the full loss, rebuilding decision, insurance settlement, or the mill’s subsequent operating history.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 2011, "One Hundred Years Ago," reprinting the February 2, 1911 Charlevoix Sentinel report.Reports that the Beaver Island Lumber Company sawmill at St. James was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening, with the origin unknown, the property insured, and lumbering operations still active. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the reprinted mill-fire report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Fire destroys the Beaver Island Lumber Company mill at St. James”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-lumber-mill-fire-1911/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2011, "One Hundred Years Ago," reprinting the February 2, 1911 Charlevoix Sentinel report. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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