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Frankfort-Wisconsin ferry proposal stalls over Michigan dock, 2006

Also A New Ferry to our South

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TypeEvent
Date2006-12
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2006-12
Kind
Transportation
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
transportationmaritimegovernmentinfrastructurecommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The December 2006 Beaver Beacon reported that a proposed ferry line between Frankfort and Wisconsin was stalled because the Michigan endpoint lacked a dock. The proposed operator had purchased a Great Lakes-built ferry but did not want to finance the dock as well.

Evidence limits

This is a contemporaneous report of a stalled proposal; it does not establish a final route, service, vessel deployment, or effect on Beaver Island.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. "A New Ferry to our South - or not," Beaver Beacon, December 2006.
    Reports that a proposed Frankfort-Wisconsin ferry using a Great Lakes-built vessel stalled because Frankfort had not provided a Michigan-end dock. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-12_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the ferry proposal report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-12_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Frankfort-Wisconsin ferry proposal stalls over Michigan dock, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-frankfort-wisconsin-ferry-proposal-2006/, accessed [date], citing "A New Ferry to our South - or not," Beaver Beacon, December 2006. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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