Beaver Island

Beaver Island is in Charlevoix County, and in the Northern Region.

This community is located north of Charlevoix, and isolated in the Owen Sound.

White traders and trappers began to show in the early 1800s. Trapping, fishing, and cutting wood for the passing steamers allowed men to earn a living at this frontier. By the 1840s, two trading posts were flourishing. Economic power shifted here from Mackinac Island because of Beaver's good fishing, ample forests, and vastly superior harbor. In 1850, 100 people lived in a growing community at Whiskey Point, unaware that the few Mormons already present would soon overwhelm them and force them to leave.

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