That's a question a lot of people have been asking.
The Charlotte Beach area of Michigan is not a well recognized “place.” You’ll be hard pressed to find it on any map, or a list of place names in Michigan. Few, including reporters and policy makers here in Michigan can tell you where it is.
The only references to Charlotte Beach are either in Florida or documentation generally associated with land claims settlement proposals by two of Michigan’s Indian Tribes: the Bay Mills Indian Community and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians; or on the several tract maps filed in the early part of the 20th Century.
Formal legal documents describe the 110 acres of “Charlotte Beach” as:
"Government Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Section 7, T45N, R2E,
and Lot 1 of Section 18, T45N, R2E, Chippewa County, State of Michigan."
So really, where in the world is “Charlotte Beach?”
Located on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula approximately 15 miles south of Sault Ste Marie, in the small north eastern community of Barbeau, Bruce Township* (ZIP code 49710), the 110-acre area referred to as “Charlotte Beach” is a sliver of property that lies along the St. Mary’s River; approximately two football fields deep, bordered by S. Scenic Drive on the west and the waterfront of the West Neebish Channel on the east; beginning at the mouth of the Charlotte River on the north (E. 13 Mile Road), it extends south approximately 1.25 miles toward the Barbeau Oak Ridge Park Ferry Crossing (E. 15 Mile Road/Cork Town Road.).
* Not to be confused with Bruce Township in Macomb County, Michigan.
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Links:
- 1845 Plat Map of Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Section 7, T45N, R2E, and Lot 1 of Section 18, T45N, R2E, Chippewa County, State of Michigan
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