Name: Beaver Island logs are loaded onto the barge Kathy Lynn for shipment to Ironton, 2004
Start: 2004-07
End: 2004-07
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2004-07
Kind: Transportation
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: transportationcommercecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The August 2004 Beaver Beacon describes several days of logs accumulating at Bud Martin’s dock before Ryba Marine Construction’s tug Kathy Lynn arrived with a barge. After three days of loading, the barge departed for Ironton through Lake Charlevoix.

Evidence limits

The article is a visual and anecdotal report; it does not provide a complete cargo manifest or identify the final consignee.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 2004, "Shipping out the Logs."
Reports logs trucked from south of Paid een Og's Road to Bud Martin's dock, loaded for three days onto Ryba Marine Construction's barge behind the tug Kathy Lynn, and shipped toward Ironton. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, August 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the harbor-shipping report and photograph.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island logs are loaded onto the barge Kathy Lynn for shipment to Ironton, 2004”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-logs-shipped-ironton-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2004, "Shipping out the Logs." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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