Fox Islands corpus record: sn83026172 1856 04 12 ed1 p3, 1856-04-12

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox islands in a Chronicling America page, sn83026172_1856-04-12_ed1_p3, dated 12 April 1856. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Beaver Island and Lake Michigan, with two other local names. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

und Mormon. The report is very favorable. At Lake Mormon the settlements are suflici ently numerous that no further anxiety is felt about them.” “The field of ice is extensive, beyond all comparison. There has been good sleighing for weeks, over broad deep channels where ice was never seen before. Indian tradi tion says that ages ago, long before the memory* of the oldest Indian, the ice was so for one day that men crossed from Big Beaver to the Fox islands. The tradition has been generally discredited. No white man ever saw the ice closed across till this winter. Now it has been good crossing with horse teams for three weeks. Southwest of the Foxes, a day’s travel, it is good travelling with horses, and no water in sight. There has been no water east of the Manitou, Fox, and Beaver islands since the 14‘h of February, and within a week the passage might have been made with safety from Sleeping Bear

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