- Date
- 1859-02-15
- Kind
- Legal proceeding
- Where
- Garden Island
- Eras
- Strang era
- Concepts
- governancetoponymyhistoriography
- Within
- Garden Island
Summary
On 15 February 1859, Michigan approved Local Act No. 194, organizing Garden Island Township from Hat, Hog, and Garden Islands, then part of Peaine Township. The act also names a schoolhouse in the village of Peaine on Garden Island as the location for its first township meeting.
Evidence and limits
This entry records the legislative act and its text, not an independently verified election, first meeting, township boundary survey, resident list, or administrative outcome. The act does not prove that the village was named for Chief Peaine, though it is a dated statutory use of the village name.
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Sources
- Described in this archive: Michigan Local Act No. 194 organizing Garden Island Township, 1859.The act legislatively organizes Garden Island Township from Hat, Hog and Garden Islands, then part of Peaine Township, and directs the first meeting to the schoolhouse in the village of Peaine. It does not document that the meeting occurred or establish a full institutional history.
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Michigan act organizing Garden Island Township, 1859”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/garden-island-township-act-1859/, accessed [date], citing Michigan Local Act No. 194, §1, approved 15 February 1859, *Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan* (1859), p. 546..
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