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Location of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough in Alaska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, United States. The locations of ...
Ketchikan (/ ˈ k ɛ tʃ ɪ k æ n / KETCH-ih-kan; [4] Tlingit: Kichx̱áan) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough on Revillagigedo Island of Alaska. [5] [6] It is the state's southeasternmost major settlement.
Creek Street is infamous as being Ketchikan's red light district, roughly between 1903 and 1954, and some of its attractions are commemorations of this past.Its origins lie in a 1903 city ordinance banishing brothels from the city center to the "Indian Town" area on the east side of the creek, and it operated until the brothels were outlawed and shut down in 1954.
Ketchikan Creek (alternate, "Fish Creek"; Tlingit, "Kitschkhin") is a salmon spawning stream [1] on Revillagigedo Island in the U.S. state of Alaska. It heads in a lake and travels through downtown Ketchikan [2] 6 miles (9.7 km) to Tongass Narrows. [3] The historic Creek Street in Ketchikan runs along the creek banks as a piling-perched ...
The commercial buildings facing Stedman Street generally have false fronts, which hide their gable roofs. The district include's Ketchikan's oldest continuously operating retail establishment, Ohashi's, which is located at 223 Stedman Street. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]
Ketchikan Gateway Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census its population was 13,948, up from 13,477 in 2010. [ 2 ] The borough seat is Ketchikan . [ 3 ]
Hotel Stedman on Front Street, September 19, 1908. The Downtown Ketchikan Historic District in Ketchikan, Alaska was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. [1] [2] The listing was put out for comments in the Federal Register in 2016. [3]