06 Dec 2019 1000 AD – 1905 Dena’ina villiages occupied the confluence of the Russian and Kenai Rivers. The trails that fisherman use today were the same… Rachel Blakeslee
05 Dec 2019 1964 The Great Earthquake. IMAGES: Town of Seward Alaska, taken on Easter Sunday 1964. Two days after the Alaska Earthquake.”… Rachel Blakeslee
05 Dec 2019 1959 Alaska is proclaimed the 49th state of the Union. IMAGE: Child holding “49th State” Pennant(UAA Consortium Library – Ruth… Rachel Blakeslee
05 Dec 2019 1951 Seward Highway is completed. IMAGES: The Anchorage Daily Times October 16th, 1951 front cover announces the opening of the… Rachel Blakeslee
05 Dec 2019 1942 The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, which connects Whittier to the Seward Highway, is completed. At two and half miles long,… Rachel Blakeslee
05 Dec 2019 1927 Benny Benson, a seventh grader who lived at the Jesse Lee Home for Children in Seward, won a contest for… Rachel Blakeslee
05 Dec 2019 1910 The Iditarod Trail system, originating in Seward, provided a winter dogsled route through the KMTA corridor to Alaska’s interior gold… Rachel Blakeslee
05 Dec 2019 1903 Alaska Central Railway construction begins. (It becomes the Alaska Railroad in 1915 when the U.S. Government takes over the project.)… Rachel Blakeslee
05 Dec 2019 1885 The mining community of Sunrise was established along the banks of Sixmile Creek as a result of the gold rush.… Rachel Blakeslee
05 Dec 2019 1867 Purchase of Alaska from Russia. The United States, championed by Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State William H. Seward, paid Russia… Rachel Blakeslee
