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Summary
This Beaver Island Net local-history page preserves a retrospective account of a farm identified as Burke’s Farm and of island livestock practices before the Second World War. It describes a family dairy operation, water-management conflict, and cattle and sheep carried on a ferry reserved for livestock.
Evidence and limits
The page is useful evidence of local historical memory and of the terminology used for the farm. It does not identify the author or publication date, provide a deed chain, establish the stated occupants’ identities, or independently verify the reported ferry practice, dates, acreage, boundaries, or ownership. Its landscape description is not a basis for publishing an archaeological-site location.
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Sources
- The page retrospectively describes a Burke family dairy operation, a drainage dispute, and annual livestock ferrying. It supplies no land record, date-specific freight record, herd ledger, or independently checked farm chronology.
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Net, “Burke’s Farm””, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/beaver-island-net-burkes-farm/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Net, “Burke’s Farm,” local-history page, circa 1999–2017..
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