While water was already available to buildings in downtown Skagway and the railway offices in 1904, water would soon be available throughout the city. The Daily Alaskan, the community’s newspaper, announced on October 15th, 1904, that the Skagway Municipal Waterworks would begin testing select water mains around town prior to beginning distribution of water throughout […]
With the arrival of all the equipment to construct the Thompson Pass Summit Tram, building it began in earnest on September 15th, 1904. When the tramway was completed it would be the longest in North America at almost eight miles. The tramway was built to haul equipment over the pass for Goldrushers. Its existence was […]
The second-largest earthquake on the planet in 1904 happened somewhere in Alaska. It could have been St. Michael, Rampart, Fairbanks, Coldfoot or a place called Sunrise on the Kenai Peninsula. People felt the magnitude 7.3 at each place. If an earthquake happens today, within a few minutes Alaska Earthquake Center researchers post a map […]