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Willie Schmidt Farm

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TypePlace
Coordinates45.6581° N, 85.4994° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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East Side Drive
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45.6581° N, 85.4994° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
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Modern era
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Summary

The Willie Schmidt Farm was a named farm property on Beaver Island. A February 1962 Beaver Beacon report describes its access road becoming impassable in a snow emergency. A February 1974 birth notice says Dr. and Mrs. Charles Carey owned the Willie Schmidt farm on East Side Drive.

The record preserves the newspaper’s farm name and approximate road association; the map point is an East Side Drive route locator rather than the farm itself. It does not establish a parcel, address, boundaries, buildings, founding date, or the legal chain of ownership.

Open questions

  • Which parcel, deed, or tax record identifies the farm?
  • Did the farm include a surviving house, barn, or other named structures?
  • When did Willie Schmidt’s ownership end, and how did the Carey family acquire the property?

Sources

  1. Reports that the road to Willie Schmidt’s farm was impassable during January snow, that a field path was plowed from Father Louis’s residence, and that the road remained a distinct local access route. It gives no parcel, address, or map.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1962-02_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 · 1962-02_Beaver-Beacon
  3. Says Dr. and Mrs. Charles Carey owned the Willie Schmidt farm on East Side Drive. It establishes a later owner relationship reported in the birth notice, not a deed, parcel boundary, or farm history.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-02_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held eleven-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 · 1974-02_Beaver-Beacon
  5. The coordinate is the current East Side Drive route point, used as a road-level locator because the 1974 notice names East Side Drive but supplies no parcel or address; it is not the farm’s boundary or building point.
    osm · roads

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Willie Schmidt Farm”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/structures/willie-schmidt-farm/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1962, “Weather.” (and 4 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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