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Graham’s Point

Also Grahams Point

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

Locator map: Graham’s Point highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeCape
Coordinates45.7989° N, 85.5312° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinGarden Island
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Graham’s Point highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
CapeGNIS 1618188
Coordinates
45.7989° N, 85.5312° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
toponymymaritimeshipping
Within
Garden Island

Summary

Grahams Point is a GNIS-named cape at the north end of Garden Island. A December 1963 Beaver Beacon article reprints a February 1925 log of the first automobile trip from Beaver Island to Cross Village; the travelers report being “off Graham’s Point” before changing course for Hat Island. The account provides an early twentieth-century navigation and winter-ice context for the point, but does not describe a permanent landing or structure there.

Open questions

  • Can earlier charts or Garden Island records explain the name Graham/Grahams?
  • Where did the winter route cross relative to the point and Hat Island?

Sources

  1. GNIS feature 1618188; feature class 'Cape'.
    federal · gnis · gnis_names
  2. A reprinted 1925 travel log places the party off Graham's Point at the north end of Garden Island while driving across the winter ice toward Hat Island and Cross Village.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1963-12_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1963-12_Beaver-Beacon

Added 28 July 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Graham’s Point”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/grahams-point/, accessed [date], citing U.S. Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System, Domestic Names (Michigan), retrieved 2026-07-28. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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