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Dutch Acres

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TypePlace
Coordinates45.6926° N, 85.5595° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Place
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Airport Road
Coordinates
45.6926° N, 85.5595° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
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Summary

Dutch Acres was the name of Bruce Meixsell’s Beaver Island property in a March 1962 Beaver Beacon report. The article places it on Airport Road while describing Meixsell’s requests for permits to release hatchery turkeys and Chinese ringneck pheasants.

This is a source-qualified property record. The map point is an approximate Airport Road route locator, not a parcel or building point. The notice does not identify a parcel, exact address, boundary, buildings, or later ownership.

Open questions

  • Can county parcel or tax records locate Dutch Acres precisely?
  • Was Dutch Acres a farm, hunting property, residence, or another land use?
  • Are later references or photographs available under the same name?

Sources

  1. Identifies Bruce Meixsell as owner of Dutch Acres on Airport Road and reports his efforts to obtain permits for wild-turkey and pheasant releases. It supplies no parcel, address, boundary, or structure inventory.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1962-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source 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 · 1962-03_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The coordinate is the current Airport Road route point, used as a road-level locator because the 1962 notice identifies Dutch Acres only as being on Airport Road; it is not the property parcel or a structure location.
    osm · roads

Added 2 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Dutch Acres”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/structures/dutch-acres/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1962, “Turkey Talk.” (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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