Beaver Island ArchiveA primary-source archive & encyclopedia45°40′N 85°33′W · Lake Michigan
Colour scheme
Search

Event

The Beaver Beacon publishes a January 1913 Beaver Island retrospective

Also Beaver Beacon January 2013 One Hundred Years Ago 1913 island news

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeEvent
Date2013-01
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
2013-01
Kind
Publication
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
publicationhistorycommunicationmaritimeweather
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The January 2013 Beaver Beacon publishes a “One Hundred Years Ago” retrospective assembled from January 1913 Charlevoix newspaper reports about Beaver Island residents, winter mail service, fishing, illness, construction, weather, and the reported loss of a seventeen-year-old fisherman.

Evidence limits

This is a later publication of historical newspaper excerpts. It is not a substitute for the original 1913 issues or contemporary maritime and medical records.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, January 2013, "One Hundred Years Ago."
    Reprints January 1913 Charlevoix Courier and Sentinel reports about a missing Beaver Island boy, winter mail service, residents, fishing, illness, construction, and severe weather. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-01_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held January issue scan confirms the retrospective publication.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-01_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “The Beaver Beacon publishes a January 1913 Beaver Island retrospective”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-january-1913-publication/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2013, "One Hundred Years Ago." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-06. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

BibTeX for “The Beaver Beacon publishes a January 1913 Beaver Island retrospective”RIS for “The Beaver Beacon publishes a January 1913 Beaver Island retrospective”