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Protar's Tomb

Also Protar’s Grave · Feodor Protar grave enclosure

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

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TypeStructure
Built1925
Coordinates45.7055° N, 85.5706° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Within Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Structure
Built
1925
Along road
Protar's Tomb Road
Coordinates
45.7055° N, 85.5706° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
heritagedeathrecreation
Within
Beaver Island
Media
Beaver Island History Map, 1978 revision

Summary

Protar’s Tomb is the grave enclosure for Feodor Protar, the Beaver Island healer and historical figure. The Beaver Island Historical Society describes the enclosure and its memorial plaque, while the current OSM historic layer maps a memorial point at the end of the named Protar’s Tomb Road.

The memorial point is mapped evidence rather than a surveyed boundary. Protar’s biography and the separately documented Protar cabin remain distinct records.

Sources

  1. Describes the grave enclosure and its “our heaven-sent friend” plaque. The page is an institutional history page, not a survey of the tomb site.
  2. Northern Islander, February 2024, birthday-commemoration notice.
    Reports a birthday commemoration at Protar’s Tomb and gives Protar’s February 19, 1837 birthday. It does not provide a survey or construction date for the enclosure. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    charlevoix · northern_islander_2024.02
  3. OSM node 2359198853 is tagged historic=memorial and named Protar’s Grave. The point is a volunteered map representation.
    osm · historic
  4. Reports progress toward final acquisition of the property on which the Protar home, barn, and tomb stand. It does not provide a deed, parcel description, closing date, or completed acquisition record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1976-08_Beaver-Beacon
  5. The held issue confirms the property-acquisition progress report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1976-08_Beaver-Beacon
  6. A humorous forum discussion asks who is buried in Protar’s tomb and repeats a local rumor that friends may have buried him on the ice or at sea. Other participants mention the Parrot/Protar name question and museum research. The thread supplies no documentary evidence about the burial and is preserved here as community folklore, not as a competing account.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 17 · t017184

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Protar's Tomb”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/structures/protar-s-tomb/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Historical Society, “Feodor Protar’s Home on Beaver Island,” retrieved 2026-08-02. (and 5 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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