- Date
- 1922-05-26
- Kind
- Announcement
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeshippingheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The Herald reported that the government steamer Margaret had cleared for Charlevoix to resume surveying waters around the Manitou and Fox islands, whose charts had not been renewed since 1860.
Evidence and limits
Everything here comes from a page of the Charlevoix County Herald, 26 May 1922. Nothing in it has been checked against an agency or a vessel record.
he right to ask to appear personally be- fore the Board ia the interest of their claim. The genera) public is at all times welcome to attend any and all sessions of the Appeal Board, Any communications regarding the appeal of a case should be addressed either to the District Office, 14 E. Con- gress St., Chicago, or to the nearest Sub-District Office throughout the states of Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon- sin. MAKE NEW SURVEY OF FOX ISLANDS. The government steamer Margaret, lake survey service, has cleared for Charlevoix, where she will resume her survey of waters in the vicinity of the Manitou and Fox islands. These wa- ters have not been charted since 1860. These chartings have been rendered obsolete by the shifting of shoals in Grand Traverse bay region. The boat made a trip to the wreck of the steamer Price, lost in the disastrous blow of Nov. 9, 1913, A sweep of
Open questions
- Does a second source from 1922 report the same thing?
- Do the people or the vessel named here leave records of their own?
See also
Sources
- Fox corpus context SHA-256 90bbf9c7f4db76d4725ba7a89fef1c68e1fb50c6ccf07f2ccd7c7f8f1a0f142f. The Herald reported that the government steamer Margaret had cleared for Charlevoix to resume surveying waters around the Manitou and Fox islands, whose charts had not been renewed since 1860. This record preserves reported or retrospective status and does not add unnamed participants, coordinates, or outcomes.
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Planned resumption of the Lake Survey around the Manitou and Fox islands, 1922”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/lake-survey-of-manitou-and-fox-waters-1922/, accessed [date], citing Charlevoix County Herald, 1922-05-26..
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