Fox Islands corpus record: HistoricMackinacV2, undated

Summary

The audit matched the name Fox Islands in a scanned Internet Archive volume, HistoricMackinacV2_djvu, which the index carries undated. It kept the body as a local mention because the same body also names Beaver Island and Grand Traverse, with two other local names. What follows is the indexed context. The page holds more.

Indexed context

colony, who are building considerable, making other improvements, and doing a fair amount of business; though evil-disposed persons, it ap- pears, have been inclined to harass them, for some reason or other. The soil is good, the timber excellent, and the general appearance of the island is delightful. They are situated at the mouth of Traverse Bay. Other small tim- bered tracts called Fox Islands are located near by them. “Somewhat farther up the lake, to the left of the usual steamboat course, are the Manitou Islands, two romantic and healthful resorts, where fishing and hunting may be enjoyed to the highest zest of those rural sports; the shores and forests are beautiful, the water clear and cold, and the air bracing; there is some resort to these bright pas- toral retr

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