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Beaver Island pleasure-craft dock project approaches approval, 1958

Also 1958 Beaver Island pleasure craft dock project

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Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
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TypeEvent
Date1958-07-31
WithinSaint James Harbor
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Saint James HarborLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
1958-07-31
Kind
Construction
Where
Saint James Harbor
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
maritimeconstructiongovernancecommunity
Within
Saint James Harbor

Summary

At a July 31, 1958 meeting with the Michigan Waterways Commission, Beaver Island’s Town Board reported that a pleasure-craft dock project was nearly assured if the town could raise its share.

Evidence limits

This is a project-status notice, not proof of funding, construction, or completion. The issue supplies no design or vote record.

Sources

  1. Reports the Town Board meeting with the Waterways Commission on July 31 and says the pleasure-craft dock project was practically assured if the town raised its share. It does not provide the funding agreement, design, vote, construction record, or completion evidence. 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 · 1958-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held four-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the project-status notice; it does not expand the engineering or funding record.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1958-08_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island pleasure-craft dock project approaches approval, 1958”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-pleasure-craft-dock-project-1958/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1958, “PLEASURE CRAFT DOCK.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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