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Richard Gillespie purchases a gravel-processing plant for Beaver Island, 2009

Also Beaver Island gravel processing plant Richard Gillespie 2009

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TypeEvent
Date2009-05
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2009-05
Kind
Business
Eras
Modern era
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commerceinfrastructurecommunitycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

A May 2009 letter thanked Richard Gillespie for purchasing a gravel-processing plant intended to improve Beaver Island road material and reduce loose rocks from bank-run gravel.

Evidence limits

The notice documents the purchase and expected community value, not operating capacity, road-project records, or long-term financial results.

Sources

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Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 2009, "Gravel Plant."
    Thanks Richard Gillespie for buying a gravel-processing plant that replaces bank-run gravel and reduces loose rocks on Island roads, while acknowledging the purchase as a long-term investment. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the gravel-plant notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Richard Gillespie purchases a gravel-processing plant for Beaver Island, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-richard-gillespie-gravel-plant-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2009, "Gravel Plant." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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