Fox Islands corpus record: sn85025007 1856 04 16 ed1 p2, 1856-04-16

Summary

The audit matched the name South Fox Island in a Chronicling America page, sn85025007_1856-04-16_ed1_p2, dated 16 April 1856. It kept the body as a local mention because the mention names South Fox by direction rather than a bare Fox Island. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

il is sent by a man on snow shoes eighty miles and back at my private ex pense, I do not get off but one or two a month. Our winter so far has beeu very tine, though a little cooler than usual; but the field ice is immense, beyond all example. I think there is two thousaud square miles more of ice north of the Maniton Islands than have been known before within the date of the earliest tradition. Nine feet of ice was found by cutting through off’ South Fox Island, where ice was never seen before. This is to be at tributed as much to the stilloess of the wa ter as to the severity of the cold. Very lit tle ice is banked. Most of it remains undis turbed where first formed.” The i!r«pe Culture. Mr. N. Longworth, the pioneer of the grape culture and wine manufacture on the Obio river—and whose wines have generally been pronounced far superior to most of the foreign importations—publishes a letter to the publi

Scope and limits

A mention is not an event. Where a held source supports one, a curated article under event/ carries the claim and this record is only its evidence. Deduplication here suppresses byte-identical bodies alone, so a second OCR edition of the same page is still a second record. The name is not unique to Michigan either, which is why the audit tests for a local cue at all. Read the cited source before you cite it.

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes