- Dates
- 2001-08 – 2001-11
- Kind
- Construction
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritageagricultureconstructioncommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island Historical Society moved a large historic thresher from the property where it had stood under a collapsed protective barn and positioned it on a slab at Heritage Park. The report credits Islanders with the move and describes a $2,000 Great Lakes Energy grant for roofs over two exhibits, along with volunteer and student-intern work at Heritage Park and the Marine Museum.
Evidence limits
The article documents the reported move and planned exhibit work; it does not provide an accession file, grant agreement, engineering record, or later condition assessment.
Sources
- Describes moving a 6-foot-wide, 24-foot-long, 10-foot-high thresher donated by Katherine Ricksgers to a Heritage Park slab, volunteer labor and concrete, a $2,000 Great Lakes Energy People Fund grant for exhibit roofs, and a school intern’s museum work. 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 · 2001-11_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the historical-society report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2001-11_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Historical Society moves a historic thresher to Heritage Park and plans exhibit roofs”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-historical-society-thresher-heritage-park-exhibit-2001/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 2001, “History in the News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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