Station Beaver Island, Michigan
USLSS Station #1, Eleventh District
Coast Guard Station #257
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Location:
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Near northeast end of Beaver Island, abreast of Beaver Harbor, at Beaver Island Harbor Light;
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Date of Conveyance:
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1875
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Station Built:
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1875
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1922
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Harrison Miller was appointed keeper on 7 DEC 1876 and transferred to Station Point Betsie on 11 JAN 1887.
Owen Gallagher was appointed keeper on 16 MAR 1887 and left in 1915.
Paul Pearson was appointed keeper in 1915.
Sources:
Station History File, CG Historian’s Office
Dennis L. Noble & Michael S. Raynes. “Register of the Stations and Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.” Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.
Ralph Shanks, Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks. The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard. Petaluma, CA: Costaño Books, 1996.
U.S. Treasury Department: Coast Guard. Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard, July 1, 1941. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1941.