Historical geography of the island's south end: Lake Galilee of 1854 over today's Lake Geneserath, the inferred vicinity of Galilee, James F. Cable's 1849 patent lots, and the Jordan — now Cables Creek — against the PLSS survey grid.
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A shaded cartographic plate shows blue water bodies, pale land relief, shorelines, waterways, a square survey grid, and colored overlays marking historical features and patent lots. A legend appears in the upper left, while labels and coordinate marks are distributed across the map. A scale bar and source credits appear along the bottom.
A model wrote this. It was shown the image and the catalogue record together, and asked to keep them apart — what it saw is here, what the record told it is under "taken from the record" below. It is still wrong often enough to matter, about who is pictured, where, when, and what is happening. Read it as a way to find the image, never as evidence about it. If you can correct it, please do: write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com, or see how corrections work. Someone who recognises a face or a shoreline knows more than the model did.
Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); USGS 3DEP and National Hydrography Dataset (public domain); NOAA NCEI bathymetry (public domain); BLM Cadastral Survey / PLSS and General Land Office records.
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The South End of Beaver Island Lake Galilee / Geneserath · Galilee · Nomad · T37N R10W Historical Jordan / current Cables Creek Galilee vicinity Cable patent lots 3 and 8 (1849) PLSS section boundary Lake Galilee · 1854 Lake Geneserath · current The Jordan / Cables Creek · current Nomad GNS locality Galilee, approx. village and wooding port · 1860s James F. Cable patent · 1849 “Cable” in record · Lots 3 & 8 Cable Bay Iron Ore Bay Beaver Head Lighthouse
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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 Plate II in an atlas-plate collection and titles it “The South End of Beaver Island.” It describes the drawing as showing Lake Galilee of 1854 over present-day Lake Geneserath, the inferred vicinity of Galilee, James F. Cable’s 1849 patent lots, and the Jordan, now Cables Creek. The record credits OpenStreetMap, USGS, NOAA, BLM cadastral survey, and General Land Office sources, and records CC BY 4.0 rights for the drawing.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
Some small survey-section labels, coordinate labels, and footer source text are too small to transcribe reliably.
Rights and credit
CC BY 4.0 for the drawing; underlying data under its own terms (see credit)
Credit this to Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); USGS 3DEP and National Hydrography Dataset (public domain); NOAA NCEI bathymetry (public domain); BLM Cadastral Survey / PLSS and General Land Office records. when you use it.
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- Beaver Island Archive
- Collection
- Atlas plates
- Drawn by
- scripts/make_south_end_map.py
- Title from
- this archive, which drew the plate
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“The South End of Beaver Island”. Beaver Island Archive. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/plate/south-end-historical-geography/.
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