Fox Islands corpus record: sn83030313 1856 04 11 ed1 p1, 1856-04-11

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox Islands in a Chronicling America page, sn83030313_1856-04-11_ed1_p1, dated 11 April 1856. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Strang. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

very here bnt eaground grains are abun dant, and will be here for sale in oonslderabie quantities. J. J. STRANG. [From the Northern Islander, Maroh 13.] Tbe field of ioe is extensive beyond all oompsTison. There has been good sleighing (or weeks, over broad chanr els, where tee was never teen before. Indian tra ditlon says that years ?g lung kef.re the memorv of the eldest Indian, the ice was so for one day the m-u crossed f-cm Big Heaver to the Fox Islands. The tradliou has been generally discredited. No while man ever eew tne Ire o’otel across till this winter. Now It has been good cresting with horse teams for three weeaa rlou’hw-st if tbe Foxes, e cay’s travel, it ia good travelling with horses, and no water in fight. Thtre baa teen no wafer east of tbe Mention, Fox aad Braver Islands, since tha 14th of February, and *tibiu a week the pas rage m’ght have beeo 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