This Day in Alaskan History-April 4th,1911
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This Day in Alaska History-March 18, 1918
It was in the early morning hours of March 18th, 1918, that Alaska’s largest mill. Wrangell’s Wilson and Sylvester Sawmill caught fire. It had opened for the 1918 season just two weeks prior. Just a few years before the fire, the community of Wrangell itself suffered a blaze in 1906 that took most of the […]
This Day in Alaska History-March 9th
On March 9th, 1911, fire broke out in the cook’s quarters in the upstairs of the Douglas Grill in Douglas. As luck would have it, the community was plagued by high winds that day. The fire quickly spread to the theater and two hotels. The fire then jumped across the street and caught additional […]
This Day in Alaska History-February 8th, 1939
