- Date
- 2006
- Kind
- Construction
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritageconstructioneducationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- place/protar-tomb
Summary
Fremont Middle School students built a replacement gate for Protar’s Tomb in 2006, entered it in a statewide contest, and presented it to the Beaver Island Historical Society. Dick Burris forged and installed the missing hardware.
Evidence limits
The report documents the construction and installation but does not provide the original gate’s measurements or a conservation assessment.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, July 2006, "Making the Gate."Reports Fremont Middle School students' replica gate project for Protar's Tomb, fifth-place finish in a statewide contest, presentation to BIHS, and Dick Burris's hand-forged hardware and installation. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-07_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the gate report and photographs.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-07_Beaver-Beacon
Added 7 July 2026 · revised 5 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Students build and install a replacement gate at Protar’s Tomb, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-protar-tomb-gate-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 2006, "Making the Gate." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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