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The Beacon traces the Beaver Island Post Office building and postmasters, 1904–1994

Also Beaver Island Post Office retrospective

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TypeEvent
Dates1904 – 1994
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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1904 – 1994
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Beaver Island

Summary

The Beacon’s retrospective connects the 1904 building’s saloon, tailoring, vacant, and post-office uses with a sequence of Beaver Island postmasters ending in the 1993–94 designation and Pam Brazda’s service.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper historical narrative with editorial revision, not a deed chain, Postal Service file, or complete institutional history.

Sources

  1. Traces the building from Johnny Green’s 1904 Silver Top Saloon through Prohibition, the 1923 post-office conversion, and the service of Willie Boyle, Frank Nackerman, Mary Minor, Lil Gregg, and Pamela Brazda. 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 · 1994-01_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held sixteen-page issue scan confirms the retrospective history.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1994-01_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “The Beacon traces the Beaver Island Post Office building and postmasters, 1904–1994”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-post-office-history-1904-1994/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1994, “The Beaver Island Post Office — 1904 to 1994.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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