FOPPI Blog

Thanks to a gift from Nancy Burgess, and her dad, Robert Hoth, we now have a 1950 ‘United States Coast Guard Radiobeacon System Great Lakes’ map to add to our collections. The Plum Island Station was one of the synchronized distance-finding commercial radio communications stations (Class C, 20-mile range) that served the bulk-carriers (iron ore, coal, petroleum, cement and limestone) boats and freighters on the Great Lakes. It was established May 3, 1940 and discontinued in

Mary Beth Volmer - President of Friends of Plum & Pilot Islands 40300 tied up at Plum Island I received a call from the current owner of...

Captain Jim Robinson aboard FOPPI's boat The Shoreline . Jim owned the boat for many years before selling it to FOPPI in 2022. FOPPI was...