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The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980 added 53.7 million acres (217,000 km 2) to the National Wildlife Refuge system, parts of 25 rivers to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system, 3.3 million acres (13,000 km 2) to National Forest lands, and 43.6 million acres (176,000 km 2) to National Park land. Because of ...
In 1867, site of Russian flag lowering and American flag raising marking the transfer of Alaska to the U.S.; in 1959, after Alaska admitted as 49th state, site of first official raising of 49-star U.S. flag; also known as Castle Hill and Baranof Castle. 5: Anangula Site: Anangula Site
First built Use Notes Russian-American Magazin: Kodiak, Alaska: 1810 storage facility Oldest building in Alaska [1] Church of the Holy Ascension: Unalaska, Alaska: 1826 Church Earliest surviving Russian church in Alaska Russian Bishop's House: Sitka, Alaska: 1841-1843 Church Early Russian architecture Russian-American Building No. 29: Sitka ...
Office and residence of Alaska's governor, 1909 A different view of the Alaska Governor's Mansion, 2009. A totem pole is next to the building, on the right side. The original budget for the 2½-story 12,900-square-foot (1,200 m 2) frame structure and furnishing was $40,000 and included planned servants quarters and a territorial museum on the third floor which were never built.
Built: 1902 () NRHP ... [3] [4] [5] Construction of the Alaska Railroad led to a decline in the 1920s, ... although its peak years had been during the first decades ...
In 1939 Congress appropriate funds for the construction of naval air stations at Sitka and other sites in coastal Alaska. The Sitka station was built on Japonski Island, just west of Sitka Harbor, on land that had been under United States Navy jurisdiction since the Alaska Purchase in 1867. The Sitka Naval Air Station was formally commissioned ...
McKinley Tower was designed in 1950 by Earl W. Morrison for MacDonald Architects of Seattle [3] who also designed the nearly identical Inlet Towers at 1020 W. 12th Avenue. [4] The building shares key design characteristics with several other buildings designed by Morrison including: Skye at Belltown in Seattle, WA. [5]
Fort William H. Seward, also known as Chilkoot Barracks and Haines Mission, is a site at Port Chilkoot in Haines Borough, Alaska, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from the city of Haines. It was the last of a series of 11 military posts established in Alaska during the gold rush era, and was Alaska's only military facility between 1925 and 1940.