Beaver Island (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward J. Wahla.

Thirty-five miles northeast of Charlevoix in Lake Michigan lies a pleasant archipelago, "The Beavers". They were considered an outlying part of old Michillimackinac by the early French and seem to have been a haven for canoe Indians of the past who have left their mark in the form of low mounds and numerous stone-age relics scattered about the islands to be plowed up by farmers or gardeners. Irish today, a Mormon colony yesterday, a Chippewa garden in the past and a refuge for stone-age people...