The Wellesley and the Northland arrived in Anchorage on October 5th, 1915. The two steamers sailed from the Lower 48 for the Alaska Engineering Commission, carrying 1.5 million feet of lumber. The lumber was for the construction of the Alaska Railroad. Construction was taking place in Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley at that point in […]
As World War II was beginning, the United States Army began construction of a base in a remote bay in Southcentral Alaska for troops and supplies to enter the territory. The secret base in Prince William Sound was named H-12 and afforded the army an ice-free port. It was activated on October 3rd 1942. It […]
A day after President Taft received the request from Alaska to be granted territory status, which he did not reply to, the president went before an audience at the AYP Amphitheatre in Seattle. When he spoke there on October 1st, 1909, he spoke in opposition to granting that status to the District of Alaska. He […]