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Beaver Island Historical Society locates a former lumber-company locomotive

Also Beaver Island Lumber Company locomotive found 2010

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TypeEvent
Date2010-05
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
2010-05
Kind
Property transfer
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
heritagetransportationexhibition
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The May 2010 Beacon reported that one of the three steam locomotives used by the Beaver Island Lumber Company had been located at the Port Huron Museum. Historical Society members began discussing whether it could be displayed at Beaver Island’s Heritage Park, with transport help tentatively identified.

Evidence limits

This is a discovery and proposal report, not proof of a completed transfer, ownership transaction, or Heritage Park installation.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 2010, "We’ve Come a Long Way."
    Reports that one of three steam locomotives from Beaver Island Lumber Company days had been located at the Port Huron Museum and that Historical Society members discussed bringing it to Heritage Park. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the locomotive report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Historical Society locates a former lumber-company locomotive”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-steam-locomotive-discovery-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2010, "We’ve Come a Long Way." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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