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Old Church Crest Road

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Locator map: Old Church Crest Road highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeRoad
Coordinates45.7270° N, 85.5230° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Old Church Crest Road highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Road
Intersects
East Side Drive · Holy Cross Cemetery · King's Highway
Coordinates
45.7270° N, 85.5230° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
transportationtoponymy
Within
Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Old Church Crest 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 438 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:

  • Circle M Supper Club — Circle M was a restaurant, bar, and lodging business on Beaver Island, run from the former Holy Cross parish rectory about a mile and a quarter south of St. James. Jack and Eileen Martin, retired from Buick, opened it for year-round business in October 1963, filling a gap in off-season meals and housing; in 1964 it became the first island restaurant to serve…
  • Old Rectory Real Estate Partnership tract — A July–August 2003 Charlevoix Courier legal notice described a 17.682-acre tract in Peaine Township associated with Old Rectory Real Estate Partnership. The metes-and-bounds description follows the center line of Old Church Crest Road and then the south line of East Side Drive before returning to the point of beginning. This record preserves the legal…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 6 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

Sources

  1. Current mapped road name 'Old Church Crest Road'; grouped OSM way ids: 17754409. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.
    osm · roads

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Old Church Crest Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/old-church-crest-road/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..

Last revised 2026-08-02. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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