The Daily Gateway newspaper in Seward reported the progress of the Alaska Central Railway to its readers on October 13th, 1905. The workers had reached mile 40 of the track bound for Anchorage. The first miles of track were slow and tedious, but speed gradually increased to approximately a mile every three days. But, as […]
The steel-hulled square-rigger sailing ship, the Star of Russia, bought by the Alaska Packers Association on November 1st, 1901, would run aground less than four years later. The ship ran aground on Chirikof Island on July 29th, 1905. There were no lives lost and it was soon refloated and repaired at a cost of $56,000 […]
