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Rural electrification loan may benefit Beaver Island, 1988

Also Top O’ Michigan Electric 1988 loan · Beaver Island electric improvements

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TypeEvent
Date1988-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1988-07
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Announcement
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

The July 1988 Beaver Beacon reports that Top O’ Michigan Electric Company had received a $6.2 million Rural Electrification Administration loan and that some funds might benefit Beaver Island. The article cautions that plans were not finalized.

Evidence limits

This is a conditional public-interest notice, not a project authorization, allocation, construction record, or completed island improvement.

Sources

  1. Reports a $6.2 million Rural Electrification Administration loan and Top O’ Michigan’s statement that island electrical work might benefit, while noting plans were not finalized. 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 · 1988-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eighteen-page July issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-07_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Rural electrification loan may benefit Beaver Island, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-top-o-michigan-electric-loan-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Top O’ Michigan Electric Co.,” Beaver Beacon, July 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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