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Fred and Gay Cox property on Island Woods Road

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Locator map: Fred and Gay Cox property on Island Woods Road highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypePlace
Coordinates45.7538° N, 85.5587° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Fred and Gay Cox property on Island Woods Road highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Place
Along road
Island Woods Road
Coordinates
45.7538° N, 85.5587° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
land-useeconomytourism
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

In May 1974, the Beaver Beacon advertised Fred and Gay Cox’s furnished place on Island Woods Road near Font Lake. The listing described a large screened porch, insulated walls and ceilings, double glass, and wall heaters in every room, with terms available through Bev Martin on Leonard Lane after June 10. The map point is the current Island Woods Road route point, retained as an approximate road-level locator because the listing says only “near Font Lake.”

This record preserves the advertised property and approximate road setting. It does not establish a completed sale, parcel, exact address, ownership chain, or present-day structure. The displayed point belongs to the named road, not to the Cox building or lot.

Open questions

  • Which parcel or deed identifies the Cox property?
  • Was the place sold, renamed, or substantially altered after 1974?
  • Can a later listing or photograph establish the building’s current status?

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

Sources

  1. Offers Fred and Gay Cox’s furnished place on Island Woods Road near Font Lake, describing a large screened porch, insulated walls and ceilings, double glass, and wall heaters. It is an advertisement, not evidence of a completed sale, title, exact parcel, or surviving building.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eleven-page combined May–June issue scan is paired with the OCR source stored under the archive 1974-05 key and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-05_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The coordinate is the current route representative point for Island Woods Road, the named road in the 1974 listing; it is not the Cox property’s parcel or building location.
    osm · roads
  4. Font Lake is the named nearby feature in the advertisement’s location description; its point helps constrain the road-level setting but does not locate the advertised property exactly.
    federal · gnis · gnis_names

Added 2 August 2026 · revised 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fred and Gay Cox property on Island Woods Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/island-woods-road-cox-property-1974/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1974, “Classified Advertising.” (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-06. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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