- Date
- 2005-04
- Kind
- Publication
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- historyheritagepublicationcommunitycommunicationeducationinfrastructuretransportationhealthcarerecreationgovernmentconservation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The April 2005 Beaver Beacon’s “On This Date” column revisited Island news from ten, twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty years earlier. Its subjects included roads, schools, the Transfer Station, medical care, parks and conservation, St. Patrick’s Day, fire protection, aviation, civic projects, and community history.
Evidence limits
This article documents the newspaper’s retrospective column rather than replacing the earlier issues or independently verifying every historical item it summarizes.
Sources
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Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April 2005, "On This Date."Reviews earlier Island reports on roads, schools, the Transfer Station, medical care, parks and conservation, St. Patrick's Day, fire protection, aviation, civic projects, and community history. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2005-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the retrospective column.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2005-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon's April 2005 On This Date column revisits Island history”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-on-this-date-april-2005-retrospective/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2005, "On This Date." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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