Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-03-15 14:25:32. Caption as posted: "Possibly circa 1920's, a view of St. James Harbor from atop the Signal Tower, near what was then the Holy Cross Parish Rectory and is now the Circle M Restaurant. The tower flew weather flags visible to local fishermen to help them assess lake conditions. Note the meadows stretching toward the harbor - these open areas were left over from much earlier eras of shifting sand dunes that surrounded the harbor, and later Mormon-era timbering done both to supply fuel for community homes and to be sold as fuel to passing steamships. Notice also the narrow two-track north of the tower's base: this "
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A black-and-white elevated view looks across a wooded foreground and open grassy fields toward a broad body of water. A road runs across the lower scene, with scattered houses and other small buildings among trees and along the far shoreline. Printed lettering appears along the bottom edge.
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Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF ST. JAMES HARBOR, BEAVER ISLAND, FROM SIGNAL TOWER
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
The catalogue record identifies this as a photograph posted by Suzanne Jule in a public Facebook group on March 15, 2026. The accompanying caption describes it as possibly dating from the 1920s and as a view from atop a signal tower near a parish rectory; it also discusses former sand dunes, timbering, and a narrow two-track road.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
Small distant buildings and shoreline features cannot be identified individually. The precise date of the photograph is uncertain; the record says possibly circa 1920s.
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- Collection
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- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10170318771736337&set=g.1178704363851871
- Copy taken
- 2026-03-15
- Title from
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| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
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| Master | JPEG | 1,984 × 1,136 px | 161 KB | 5b180bef93c2… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Michigan Archives (public Facebook group) by Suzanne Jule on 2026-03-15 14:25:32”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2026-03-15-10170318771736337/. copy retrieved 2026-03-15.
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