Fox Islands corpus record: childofsealifeam00will, undated

Summary

The audit matched the name South Fox Island in a scanned Internet Archive volume, childofsealifeam00will_djvu, which the index carries undated. 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

and for those two Mor- mon families to come back to the island. In some way the Mormons had found out the men were with the Gentiles. The men sent back word that they would never go back. Soon another message came saying a boat with force enough would be sent to bring them to the island. As soon as navigation opened Strang extended his territory by sending several families to South Fox Island and several more to Grand Traverse, where they settled near the pretty little harbor, which they named “Bower’s Harbor” in honor of the man who had charge of the little settlement, where a beautiful resort is now situated at the har- bor, which is called “Neahtawanta” (peaceful wa- 148 A CHILD OF THE SEA; AND ters.) Those who settled there were Mormons only in name, as they we

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