Michigan Avenue

Road

Intersects

Freesoil Road · Lake Drive · Main Street · Maple Street

Coordinates

45.7464° N, 85.5084° WGoogle Maps: Michigan AvenueDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Michigan Avenue is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap map. The two held ways carrying that name are merged here into one route geometry of about 965 m. It meets four 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:

• McDonough's General Store — McDonough’s General Store is Beaver Island’s oldest continuously operating retail business, tracing through four owners and, by the fullest held account, four names – an unnamed company store, “Grill’s,” and, since 1933, McDonough’s – on the same Main Street corner. Wilbur F. Gill built the store around 1901-1902 and immediately sold it to…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 456 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.

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes