The original motor vessel Kennicott, while on its return from it’s maiden voyage to Alaska on October 9th. 1923, struck the rocks at Hunters Point on Frederick Island, which is part of the Queen Charlotte Islands, in stormy weather. And when it ran aground, it broke up. When the Kennicott, owned by the Alaska Steamship […]
On August 2nd, 1924, a fire broke out in the power plant in Kennicott, the world’s leading producer of copper in the world. The steam-powered power plant produced electricity for the mines in the mountains, the Bonanza, Jumbo, Mother Lode, and Erie, as well as for the town that had sprung up to house and […]
