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 […]
Augustine Volcano sits alone, a 4,000-foot pyramid on its own island in Cook Inlet. Like many volcanoes, it has a tendency to become top heavy. When gravity acts on Augustine’s oversteepened dome, rockslides spill into the ocean. A scientist recently found new evidence for an Augustine-generated tsunami from a time when Egyptian pharaohs built their […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed on Tuesday that two inmates at the Anchorage Correctional Complex assaulted a guard in an attempt to escape the jail on Sunday night. According to the trooper dispatch, two inmates lured a correction officer to their cell under the pretext of needing toilet paper late Sunday night. After receiving their toilet […]
On Oct. 6, 1883, this entry was in the Alaska Commercial Company logbook at an English Bay trading post, located about 50 miles northeast of Augustine volcano: “This morning at 8:15 o’clock, 4 tidal waves flowed with a westerly current, one following the other . . . the sea rising 20 feet above the usual […]