Summary
Piper’s Corner is a locally used Beaver Island locality near Sloatown Road and Bonners’. A Helen Collar research-card note places it just east of Bonners’ and attributes the name to Dan Gallagher, called “Piper.” A February 2026 Northern Islander family-history feature independently uses Piper’s Corner as a reference point for the Boyle family farm and its memorial stone.
The locality is recorded as a draft place because the held sources establish local usage and an attributed name tradition, but do not provide a surveyed coordinate, formal boundary, or independently verified biography of Dan Gallagher.
Open questions
- Where exactly did historical maps and land records place Piper’s Corner?
- Which Dan Gallagher was called Piper, and when did the name enter local use?
- Can the memorial stone and the Boyle farm be documented through property or cemetery records?
Sources
- Helen Collar Papers, Beaver Island history subject cards, Q-Z, Place Names, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, retrieved 2026.A local research-card note places Piper's Corner just east of Bonners' and attributes the name to a Dan Gallagher called Piper. The card does not provide a map, date, or underlying citation beyond “P. 141.”web · collar_subject_cards_q-z
- Michelle LaFreniere, “On the Front Porch with Eleanor McDonough,” *Northern Islander*, February 2026.Eleanor McDonough's family account places her maternal grandparents' farm on Sloatown Road near Piper's Corner and says a memorial stone on the corner marks it. This is a present-day local geographic and commemorative attestation, not a surveyed boundary.