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Beaver Island opens its Veterans' Memorial Park, 2011

Also Beaver Island Veterans Memorial Park ceremony 2011

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TypeEvent
Date2011-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2011-07
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Opening
Where
Beaver Island
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

The August 2011 Beacon reports that Beaver Island’s Veterans’ Memorial Park became a reality after a long volunteer and fundraising effort. Once a professional crew placed three monuments, a public ceremony drew about 250 people.

Evidence limits

The article does not give the ceremony’s exact date, monument inscriptions, or a complete list of donors and volunteers.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. A contemporaneous post announced local television coverage of the dedication. It corroborates that the ceremony had occurred by July 11, but does not establish attendance or the broadcast content.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 03 · t003723
  2. AMVETS Post 46 announced the July 3 formal dedication and said brick orders were being collected for installation by Labor Day; it is an organizer notice, not the later completion or attendance account.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 03 · t003662
  3. Beaver Beacon, August 2011, "The Veterans' Memorial Park."
    Reports that volunteers, donations, and perseverance transformed the Veterans' Park project into a completed place, followed by placement of three monuments and a public ceremony attended by about 250 people. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-08_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held issue scan confirms the Veterans' Memorial Park report and photographs.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-08_Beaver-Beacon
  5. AMVETS Post 46 announced the formal dedication for July 3 at 3:00 p.m., described the planned granite monuments, and invited brick orders; a related June 29 notice repeated the dedication invitation. These organizer notices establish the planned date and program, while the Beacon supplies the later completion and attendance account.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 03 · t003624
  6. A contemporaneous post announced local television coverage of the dedication. It corroborates that the ceremony had occurred by July 11, but does not establish attendance or the broadcast content.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 03 · t003723
  7. AMVETS updates report more than 270 bricks by August, additional installations, and links to videos of the dedication and memorial. These are organizer and community posts, useful for the continuing construction timeline but not a complete inventory or independent attendance record.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 03 · t003900

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island opens its Veterans' Memorial Park, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-veterans-memorial-park-dedication-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, "9 & 10 News Piece on Veteran's Memorial," July 11–12, 2011. (and 6 further sources listed on the page).

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