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McCaully Farm

Also old McCaully Farm

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Summary

McCaully Farm, described in 1964 as the old McCaully Farm, was the property identified with Perry Crawford’s farm at the junction of Kings Highway and Airport Road. A September 1964 Beaver Beacon report says its barn burned to the ground on August 22, while no other building burned.

The name and approximate junction are preserved from the newspaper. This record does not establish the farm’s parcel, boundaries, ownership history, surviving buildings, or the cause and assessed loss of the fire.

Open questions

  • Which parcel or land records identify McCaully Farm?
  • Was the farm still known by that name after the 1964 barn fire?
  • Are there photographs, fire records, or later accounts of the property?

Sources

  1. Reports that the barn on Perry Crawford’s farm burned on August 22 and identifies the property as the old McCaully Farm at Kings Highway and Airport Road. It gives no parcel, boundary, ownership history, fire report, or precise building location.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1964-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eight-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 · 1964-09_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The approximate point follows the current mapped junction area where King's Highway meets the east-west route now mapped as Paid een Og's Road, with Airport Road mapped farther west. This preserves the newspaper's historic junction description without asserting that the current road names or alignments exactly reproduce the 1964 wording, or that the farm occupied the junction point itself.
  4. The current mapped east-west segment is retained only as network context for the approximate junction anchor.

Added 2 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “McCaully Farm”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/structures/mccaully-farm/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1964, “Land Mark Disappears.” (and 3 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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