Despite food shortages during World War One, the consumption of whale meat never took hold in America, Following the government’s lead, the Douglas Island News attempted to convince the general populace to partake of whale meat by extolling “Whale Beef” in their newspaper on October 7th, 1914. But while whale meat was actively consumed by […]
The Wellesley and the Northland arrived in Anchorage on October 5th, 1915. The two steamers sailed from the Lower 48 for the Alaska Engineering Commission, carrying 1.5 million feet of lumber. The lumber was for the construction of the Alaska Railroad. Construction was taking place in Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley at that point in […]
As World War II was beginning, the United States Army began construction of a base in a remote bay in Southcentral Alaska for troops and supplies to enter the territory. The secret base in Prince William Sound was named H-12 and afforded the army an ice-free port. It was activated on October 3rd 1942. It […]