After three days of trenching and laying cable through the Valdez tidal flats, in the early morning hours of September 29th 1904, the U.S. Army Transport Burnside began laying 650 miles of cable from Valdez to the southeast community of Sitka. The steamer was successful in its task of laying the cable, which would cut […]
On September 14th, 1916, Bishop Philip Stavitsky of the Russian Orthodox Church arrived in Juneau. It was Bishop Stavitsky’s first trip to the north as he took over the church in the territory. The Bishop would stop next in Sitka to celebrate the centennial of Orthodoxy in Alaska. His leadership of the church in Alaska […]
On September 8, 1906, the office of the Governor of Alaska moved from Sitka to Juneau, completing the transfer of the territorial government and marking a turning point in Alaskan history. Founded during the gold rush of the 1880s, Juneau had grown into a major commercial and mining center. Congress had already designated Juneau […]
