Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-02-03 16:33:37. Caption as posted: "A logging camp of the Beaver Island Lumber Company, which operated from 1902 to 1915. This one was located on the island's west side, one of several work camps situated on BILCO's narrow-gauge railroad that ran from the harbor thirteen miles southward. My dad's maternal grandfather Francis 'Ket' Gillespie was a cook in these log-cabin hamlets. Ket's daughter Grace Gillespie Cole, my grandmother, told me of village mothers and daughters with tin buckets hitching a ride south on empty rail cars in the morning to harvest the abundant berry bushes alongside the tracks and further into bogs, retu"
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A black-and-white photograph shows two parallel railway tracks running through a wooded settlement. Rough log buildings stand on both sides of the tracks, with piles of cut logs in the foreground and beside the structures. Livestock is visible on and near the tracks.
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Subjects and keywords
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The catalogue caption identifies the scene as a logging camp operated by the Beaver Island Lumber Company from 1902 to 1915, located on the west side near a narrow-gauge railroad. The caption also discusses Francis “Ket” Gillespie, who was reportedly a camp cook, and family recollections attributed to Suzanne Jule.
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The species of the livestock and the function of the individual buildings are not certain.
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- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10170102578571337&set=g.1178704363851871
- Copy taken
- 2026-02-03
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| Master | JPEG | 2,048 × 1,460 px | 269 KB | aa9dd163a3b3… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-02-03 16:33:37”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-02-03-10170102578571337/. copy retrieved 2026-02-03.
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