This Day in Alaska History-August 30th, 1915
This Day in Alaska History-August 29th, 1885
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 […]
This Day in Alaska History-August 23rd, 1914
By 1914, the war in Europe’s far reach began affecting the goings-on in Alaska. That war affected copper mining operations and several would close down in the winter of 1914. The closures were the result of labor shortages. Many of the miners were European immigrants, and those immigrants returned to Europe to fight in the […]
This Day in Alaska History-February 9th, 1907
