- Intersects
- Main Street · Michigan Avenue · Pine Avenue
- Coordinates
- 45.7518° N, 85.5103° WGoogle Maps: Freesoil RoadDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
Freesoil Road is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap map.
One held way carries that name, and its geometry is the whole route: about 312
m. It meets three other named roads, listed under intersects_road.
Evidence and limits
The name and the alignment are what mappers last entered, and OpenStreetMap is
volunteered work rather than a survey: it settles neither the right-of-way nor
who maintains the road. Where the name came from is a separate question. Plats,
road-commission minutes, and island memory answer that one. Put an older
spelling from any of them into alt_names or former_names, with the source
that attests it.
Documented associations
These source-backed records provide context for the mapped route:
- Beaver Island road-work and runway-access bulletin, 2026 — On June 3, 2026, WVBI summarized several Charlevoix County Road Commission activities and notices on Beaver Island. The bulletin reported chloride work on Barney’s Lake Road and Allen’s Lakeview Drive, upcoming paving on Freesoil Avenue and Maple Street, intermittent East Side Drive closures near Welke Airport, and a restriction on using Hangar Road…
- Protestant summer services are held at the Freesoil Road church-house, 1955 — The July 1955 Beaver Beacon announced Sunday Protestant services at the church-house on Freesoil Road during July and August. Reverend Warren Densmore was to conduct July services, with Reverend Arthur Willis and his family returning in August; communion and services were scheduled each Sunday. The notice establishes a summer religious-use episode and road…
Research status
The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 4 file(s). Those files are research leads; the relation layer is added only when the surrounding source text establishes that the record involves this road.
Maps for this place
These Atlas plates provide regional context. They do not establish a precise boundary, current ownership, access right, operating status, or field condition.
- EnvironmentSoils, wetlands, hydrography, and terrain
- GeologyGeneralized geology and landforms
- HydrologyMapped water and wetland context
- AccessMapped routes, facilities, and protected areas
- Land surveyPLSS geometry and historic GLO patent-location context
The dated record
Sources
- Current mapped road name 'Freesoil Road'; grouped OSM way ids: 17759092. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.osm · roads
- The bulletin calls the current route Freesoil Avenue when discussing upcoming paving. The KB retains that source wording as an alias while the current mapped article uses Freesoil Road; the source does not establish a legal renaming.
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Freesoil Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/freesoil-road/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0). (and 1 further source listed on the page).
Last revised 2026-08-02. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.