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St. James Township advances Iron Ore Bay purchase and approves a Fire Auxiliary resale shop, 1984

Also St. James Township February 1984 minutes

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TypeEvent
Date1984-02
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1984-02
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Meeting
Where
Beaver Island
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Township of Saint James
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The St. James Township minutes printed in March 1984 covered the proposed Iron Ore Bay public-property purchase, campground repairs, dock-well planning, municipal legal services, Main Street questions, the constable office, and the Fire Auxiliary resale shop.

Evidence limits

The article records motions and proposals; it does not establish the election result, purchase closing, construction completion, or later use of the hall.

Sources

  1. Reports township balances and payments, a March 15 special election on borrowing for Iron Ore Bay property, the revised two-lot purchase proposal and $48,500 price, Yacht Dock well correspondence, repairs required at the township park campground, attorney services, Main Street property and abandonment questions, elimination of the constable office, a professional hall appraisal, approval for the Fire Auxiliary resale shop in the hall basement, and payment of a $71.61 property tax bill. It is a newspaper minutes report, not a deed, election result, engineering file, or facility-use record. 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 · 1984-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held fourteen-page March issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the St. James Township minutes.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1984-03_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township advances Iron Ore Bay purchase and approves a Fire Auxiliary resale shop, 1984”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-james-township-february-1984-minutes/, accessed [date], citing St. James Township minutes, Beaver Beacon, March 1984. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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