Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2025-12-11 20:19:22. Caption as posted: "I was given a 1845 map (copy) from Sherm Chamberlain. Sherm’s company does a lot of surveys on BI. Anyway, he was researching county surveys and came upon this map describing how the early surveys were made and this photo shows cornfields and what would have been “Pagetown” on the map near what today is referred to as Indian Point in Port St. James. I intend to drop this and the copies of the survey documents off at the BIHS but I thought this group might find this interesting."
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A close-up grayscale photograph shows a hand-drawn survey map. Thick and thin lines divide irregular parcels and numbered sections, with directional bearings, acreage figures, and handwritten labels distributed across the map. The photograph is cropped so that portions of the map extend beyond all edges.
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N 18° W; N 32° W; N 40° W; N 52° W; N 63° W; N 75° W; N 87° W; E; Sec 20; Sec 21; Sec 22; Sec 28; Village; A. 61.50; A. 56.15; A. 148.00; A. 30.15; A. 35.50; 32.60; A. 54.60; A. 55.50; A. 57.50; A. 40.00; A. 174.75; A. 37.25; A. 148.65; A. 538.05; A. 38.25
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The archive record identifies this as a photograph posted by Suzanne Jule on December 11, 2025. The accompanying caption describes it as a copy of an 1845 map associated with Sherm Chamberlain and references cornfields and a former settlement called “Pagetown” near Indian Point in Port St. James.
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Additional handwritten labels and figures are partly cropped, faded, or too indistinct to transcribe confidently. The village name is not fully legible.
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- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1173846261482687&set=g.1178704363851871
- Copy taken
- 2025-12-11
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| Master | JPEG | 1,536 × 2,048 px | 692 KB | a4f1ee8b442f… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2025-12-11 20:19:22”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2025-12-11-1173846261482687/. copy retrieved 2025-12-11.
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