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Produced The Chechahcos, the first movie produced in Alaska. Lathrop's feud with Gruening over statehood issues spawned the novel and film Ice Palace. Loren Leman (born 1950), Lieutenant Governor 2002–2006, the first Alaska Native elected to statewide office. Ray Mala (1906–1952), the first Native American and first Alaskan to become a film ...
Building Image Location First built Use Notes The Oldest Frame House (Ka Hale Lāʻau) Honolulu, Hawaii: 1821 Residence Oldest frame house in Hawaii; boards were produced in New England and then shipped to Hawaii to be assembled for the mission house. [1] The Chamberlain House (Ka Hale Kamalani) Honolulu, Hawaii: 1831 Residence/Mission
Kodiak Island: Site of the first Russian settlement in Alaska in 1784. 48: Wales Site: Wales Site: December 29, 1962 : Address restricted [6], Wales: Nome: Site of first discovery of how the Thule culture followed the Birnirk culture in precontact whaling populations of the Alaskan shoreline. 49: Walrus Islands Archeological District
For his first royal residence, the new King built the first western-style structure in the Hawaiian Islands, known as the "Brick Palace". [100] The location became the seat of government until 1845. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] The structure was built at Keawa'iki point in Lahaina, Maui . [ 103 ]
Building Image Location 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 ...
Kilauea Point Lighthouse Huliheʻe Palace. The following are approximate tallies of current listings by island and county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site, all of which list properties simply by county; [3] they are here divided ...
Keka 'ele'ele was possibly the first black settler in the Hawaiian Islands. [14] The two had been on the island since before the unification. After the Battle of Nuʻuanu they took Kamehameha's side. [13] [15] The building was built on top of a mound enclosed with a dry masonry wall built of round rocks between one and two feet on diameter.
With the offering of the bodies the new temple was officially dedicated. The campaign to unite all the islands continued with Maui in 1794, and Oʻahu in 1795 at the Battle of Nuʻuanu. The unification was completed when the king of the island of Kauaʻi became a vassal to Kamehameha I, in 1810 making the latter the first king of a unified Hawai'i.