On August 29th, 1885, Lieutenant Henry Tureman Allen arrived in St Michael in the Bering Sea. What made that occasion special was the date and point marked the completion of a 1,600-mile exploration that began at the delta of the Copper River and ended at the drainage of the Tanana into the Yukon River. Yureman […]
Seward’s founder John Ballaine, 58 “Pioneers,” and 25 Central Railway workers pulled into Resurrection Bay on August 28th, 1903. Upon their arrival aboard the “Santa Ana”, they joined the sole family in the area, Mrs. Lowell and her family, and began expanding their new community just north of Lowell Point in earnest. A year before, […]
A representative from the US Government set out down the Yukon River to Nome to look at the feasibility of a Harbor in that coastal community on August 27th, 1915. The community and gold miners had to use the beach and the Snake River’s small inlet when landing in the area. This […]
Almost 49,000 voters made their way to 297 polling places in the territory of Alaska on August 26th,1958. The voters cast their votes for a proposition in a six-to-one margin in the special election to approve statehood for the territory. The turnout was so tremendous that in many of the polling places, the ballot supply […]