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St. James Township calls a taxpayer meeting about the yacht-dock problem, 1957

Also 1957 Beaver Island yacht-dock meeting · December 1957 St. James Township meeting

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Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
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TypeEvent
Date1957-12-05
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
1957-12-05
Kind
Meeting
Where
Saint James Harbor
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
governancemaritimeinfrastructurecommunitycommunication
Within
Saint James Harbor

Summary

The Christmas 1957 Beaver Beacon urged all Beaver Island taxpayers to attend a St. James Township Board meeting on December 5 to discuss the yacht-dock problem.

Evidence and limits

This is an advance civic-meeting notice. It does not identify the dock problem, provide an agenda or minutes, establish ownership, or document a decision or later improvement.

Sources

  1. Requests all Beaver Island taxpayers attend the St. James Township Board’s December 5 monthly civic meeting to discuss the yacht-dock problem. It does not identify the problem, provide an agenda or minutes, identify the dock’s ownership, or document a decision or later improvement. 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 · 1957-12_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the taxpayer-meeting notice; it does not expand the township, dock, or infrastructure record.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1957-12_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township calls a taxpayer meeting about the yacht-dock problem, 1957”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/st-james-township-yacht-dock-meeting-1957/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, Christmas 1957, “IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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