- Intersects
- Airport Road · Fox Lake Road · Sloptown Road
- Coordinates
- 45.6959° N, 85.5577° WGoogle Maps: Donnel Mor's LaneDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
- Media
- Beaver Island History Map, 1978 revision
Summary
Donnel Mor’s Lane is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap
map. One held way carries that name, and its geometry is the whole route:
about 1.6 km. It meets three other named roads, listed under
intersects_road.
Evidence and limits
The name and the alignment are what mappers last entered, and OpenStreetMap is
volunteered work rather than a survey: it settles neither the right-of-way nor
who maintains the road. Where the name came from is a separate question. Plats,
road-commission minutes, and island memory answer that one. Put an older
spelling from any of them into alt_names or former_names, with the source
that attests it.
Documented associations
These source-backed records provide context for the mapped route:
- Dick Winnick moves portable home from Donnel Mor's Lane, 2002 — On October 1, 2002, Dick Winnick’s portable home was moved from behind the former Pelke speakeasy on Donnel Mor’s Lane to the Bonner Centennial Farm for the winter, according to the November Beaver Beacon. The move is recorded as a transportation event, not as evidence that Winnick owned either site.
- Peaine Township traffic-engineering and safety study request, 2026 — On May 19, 2026, the Peaine Township Board adopted Resolution 14-2026, requesting that the Charlevoix County Road Commission initiate a traffic- engineering and safety speed study. The resolution names East Side Drive, Donnel Mor’s Lane, Paid Een Og’s Road, and Tom McCauley Road and asks that the study account for seasonal traffic, pedestrians and…
- Dick Winnick — Dick Winnick was described in a November 2002 Beaver Beacon article as a long-time seasonal Beaver Island resident, knife repairman, and metal detectorist. The article says he restored knives and Civil War firearms and lived in a Walden-style portable structure behind the former Pelke speakeasy on Donnel Mor’s Lane. The related house-move event records the…
Research status
The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 4 file(s). Those files are research leads; the relation layer is added only when the surrounding source text establishes that the record involves this road.
Maps for this place
These Atlas plates provide regional context. They do not establish a precise boundary, current ownership, access right, operating status, or field condition.
- EnvironmentSoils, wetlands, hydrography, and terrain
- GeologyGeneralized geology and landforms
- HydrologyMapped water and wetland context
- AccessMapped routes, facilities, and protected areas
- Land surveyPLSS geometry and historic GLO patent-location context
The dated record
Sources
- Current mapped road name "Donnel Mor's Lane"; grouped OSM way ids: 17756105. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.osm · roads
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Donnel Mor's Lane”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/donnel-mor-s-lane/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..
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