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Beaver Island Civic Association history, Part 2, 1983

Also Civic Association history of the 1950s

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TypeEvent
Dates1957 – 1959
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Dates
1957 – 1959
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Publication
Where
Beaver Island
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Beaver Island Civic Association
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

The second installment of the Civic Association’s retrospective, printed in the July 1983 Beaver Beacon, describes its 1950s response to a proposed loss of telephone service and a range of community, road, harbor, conservation, and social activities.

Evidence limits

This is a retrospective published by the association’s newsletter. It does not replace Bell Telephone records, a local-company charter, township minutes, construction or dock records, or a complete event calendar.

Sources

  1. The retrospective says the Civic responded to the Coast Guard's 1957 telephone-service discontinuation notice by forming a committee and working with Bell Telephone on a local company; it also describes the Game Club as an early Civic committee, trail and road repair, sinking old cars as fishing structures, help with the Yacht Dock and picnic-table materials, cedar planting around the church in 1959, a Dawn Patrol, and a square dance. It is a self-reported newspaper history, not a committee file, telephone-company charter, dock record, work log, or event register. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1983-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eleven-page July issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the second Civic history installment.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1983-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Civic Association history, Part 2, 1983”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-civic-association-history-part-two-1983/, accessed [date], citing “Civic Association History — Part 2,” Beaver Beacon, July 1983. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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