BEAVER ISLAND, Charlevoix County, Michigan
Hidden in the Beaver Islands Archipelago in the far northeastern end of Lake Michigan, are old French and Mormon colonies, now long forgotten. Big Beaver Island was the headquarters for French trappers and hunters long before the first permanent settlement was established around 1603, but this settlement later disappeared without a trace. In 1847, a Mormon colony was founded near present-day St. James. That colony eventually closed and its site burned.
The French trappers were part of Gov. Frontenac's trapping enterprise out of Montreal. This was quite a profitable business for Frontenac. See the legend of the "Cross on the Rock" sometimes referred to as the "Lost Treasure of Borie". Discount anything written by Francis Scully; it's way off base and only remotely factual.
I have the story right from the native Americans and an actual picture of the cross on the rock. I'll get into this legend of gold treasure at some point.
Hidden in the Beaver Islands Archipelago in the far northeastern end of Lake Michigan, are old French and Mormon colonies, now long forgotten. Big Beaver Island was the headquarters for French trappers and hunters long before the first permanent settlement was established around 1603, but this settlement later disappeared without a trace. In 1847, a Mormon colony was founded near present-day St. James. That colony eventually closed and its site burned.
The French trappers were part of Gov. Frontenac's trapping enterprise out of Montreal. This was quite a profitable business for Frontenac. See the legend of the "Cross on the Rock" sometimes referred to as the "Lost Treasure of Borie". Discount anything written by Francis Scully; it's way off base and only remotely factual.
I have the story right from the native Americans and an actual picture of the cross on the rock. I'll get into this legend of gold treasure at some point.