On the morning of September 18th, 1915, a tremendous explosion took place in Prince William Sound. The explosion originated at the Granite Mine in Hobo Bay. A ton and a half of dynamite was deemed to have been set off by a disgruntled employee who had been fired the day before. Despite the massive explosion […]
On September 17th, 1868, the Russian-American Company changed hands for a third time, and the name was changed to the Alaska Commercial Company in San Francisco. The buyers, Sloss, Lewis Gerstle, and A. Wasserman purchaced the Russian-Americasn Company from Hutchinson, Kohl & Company the ones who bought the company from Russia a year earlier. ACC […]
With the arrival of all the equipment to construct the Thompson Pass Summit Tram, building it began in earnest on September 15th, 1904. When the tramway was completed it would be the longest in North America at almost eight miles. The tramway was built to haul equipment over the pass for Goldrushers. Its existence was […]