Kathleen Craker Firestone
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 120
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"The island has been known by many names since settlers first came to the Grand Traverse Bay area. Harbor Island, Hog Island, Eagle Island, Marion, Ford, Rennie or Power Island... And sometimes part of this 198-acre land mass in Grand Traverse Bay is connected by a tiny islet to a smaller, approximately two-acre island, which has been called Squaw Island, The Haunted Island, Fisherman's Island, "but most of all, Bassett Island. When Orange Risdon made the land survey in 1852, he included them in one report, simply titled "An Island in Grand Traverse Bay"--Intro.