- Date
- 1969-05-02
- Kind
- Disaster
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- disastercommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Peter Johnson’s farmhouse burned to the ground on Beaver Island on May 2, 1969. The May Beaver Beacon said no one was living there because Johnson was a patient at Grandvue.
Evidence and limits
The notice does not provide a cause, response log, or damage assessment.
Sources
- Reports the first Beaver Island fire in many months destroying Peter Johnson's farmhouse on May 2; it says no one was living there because Johnson was a patient at Grandvue, but does not provide a cause, response log, or damage assessment.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1969-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eight-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published fire report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1969-05_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Peter Johnson farmhouse burns on Beaver Island, 1969”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-peter-johnson-farmhouse-fire-1969/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1969, “Fire.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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