This Day in Alaska History-September 17th, 1868

On September 17th, 1868, the Russian-American Company changed hands for a third time, and the name was changed to the Alaska Commercial Company in San Francisco. The buyers, Sloss, Lewis Gerstle, and A. Wasserman purchaced the Russian-Americasn Company from Hutchinson, Kohl & Company the ones who bought the company from Russia a year earlier. ACC […]


