Holy Cross Cemetery

Road

Intersects

King's Highway · Old Church Crest Road

Coordinates

45.7279° N, 85.5247° WGoogle Maps: Holy Cross CemeteryDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Holy Cross Cemetery 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 276 m. The route crosses the mapped polygon for Holy Cross Cemetery, the parish burial ground, and meets two other named roads, King’s Highway and Old Church Crest 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.

The road shares its name with the cemetery it crosses, and the two are documented separately and deliberately. “Holy Cross Cemetery” is a common exact-text match in the held newspaper and website corpus (see Research status, below), but the great majority of those mentions describe the burial ground itself, not this mapped route — a route is a different kind of record from a place people are buried, and the research queue below is treated as a lead for the cemetery article, not a source of road history. No held source independently documents when this road was laid out, built, or first named, distinct from the cemetery it passes.

Documented associations

These source-backed records provide context for the mapped route:

• Holy Cross Cemetery — Holy Cross Cemetery is the burial ground associated with Holy Cross Catholic Church on Beaver Island. The Michigan historical marker places the original 1860 church alongside the parish cemetery about one mile south of the present church site; the church was moved to its current location in 1957, while the cemetery…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 447 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.

Added 2 August 2026 · revised 9 August 2026. Recent changes