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 […]