- Date
- 1902-11
- Kind
- Publication
- Eras
- Frontier era
- Concepts
- heritagecommunicationmaritimecommercemigrationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The November 2002 Beacon reprinted November 1902 notices about Beaver Island commerce, infrastructure, and community life. They mention fish shipments and fishing tugs, the Beaver Island Lumber Company’s purchase of a mill and plans for a narrow-gauge railroad, lake-trout eggs, local ordinances and marriages, deer licensing, and the steamer Beaver continuing the Island route into winter.
Evidence limits
This is a later newspaper reprint, not a complete run of the 1902 source papers or an independent verification of the notices.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, November 2002, “One Hundred Years Ago.”Reprints November 1902 notices about fish shipments and tugs, the Beaver Island Lumber Company’s mill and railroad survey, lake-trout eggs, an anti-spitting ordinance, a Gibson-Gill marriage, junk buying, deer licenses, and the steamer Beaver’s winter route. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2002-11_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the historical newspaper reprint.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2002-11_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “November 2002 Beacon reprints Beaver Island notices from November 1902”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-one-hundred-years-ago-november-1902/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 2002, “One Hundred Years Ago.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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