Structure
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- agricultureheritagecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Don Burke Farm was a 120-acre farm in Section 14 of Peaine Township named in a September 1970 Beaver Beacon report. The property included buildings and an original barn. The article says the first recorded real estate transaction was in 1874 and that the actual beginnings might be earlier.
Evidence and limits
This is a source-qualified structure record. The article does not establish the farm’s precise location within Section 14, boundaries, original owner, barn construction date, or the report’s suggestion of possible Strangite use in the early 1850s. It also does not prove that the preservation plan was completed.
Open questions
- Which land records identify the Don Burke Farm and its buildings?
- Does the original barn survive, and was it maintained as described?
- Can independent evidence date or connect the farm to Strangite activity?
See also
- Purchase and preservation plans for the Don Burke Farm (1970)
- Major Daniel J. Egbert (1970 farm purchaser)
- Sand Bay
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 1970, “Newsy-Notes.”Describes a 120-acre farm in Section 14 of Peaine Township, buildings including an original barn, a first recorded real estate transaction in 1874, and a belief that its beginnings were earlier; it supplies no formal farm name beyond Don Burke Farm, coordinates, boundaries, or construction date.