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A locomotive of the Yakutat and Southern Railway Co. in Yakutat, September 1, 1907. Yakutat and Southern Railway was a rail operation in the area. It served several canneries south of Yakutat and primarily hauled fish to the harbor. Service ended in the mid-1960s. [16]
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
Location of Yakutat in Alaska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yakutat, Alaska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yakutat, Alaska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the ...
Yakutat Bay, a bay on the coast of Alaska; Yakutat Airport, a state-owned public-use airport in Alaska in the United States; Yakutat Army Airfield, a former United States Army airfield which was redeveloped into the current airport; Yakutat Colony, a former Russian penal colony on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Yakutat Bay was the epicenter of two major earthquakes on September 10, 1899, a magnitude 7.4 foreshock and a magnitude 8.0 main shock, 37 minutes apart. [1] The Shelikhov-Golikov company (precursor of the Russian-American Company), under the management of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, founded a settlement in Yakutat Bay in 1795.
The Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, located in Galveston, Texas, is a museum dedicated to the offshore oil and gas industry. Located next to the Strand National Historic Landmark District , the museum is housed on a retired jack-up rig set up in the Galveston harbor.
HAVANA (Reuters) -A Russian navy frigate and a nuclear-powered submarine churned into Havana harbor on Wednesday, a stopover the U.S. and Cuba said posed no threat but which was widely seen as a ...
The ship made four successful round trips through the blockade between Galveston, Texas, and Havana, Cuba. In April 1865, she ran aground near the entrance to Galveston harbor. Two launches dispatched from the Union blockading squadron attacked the Lark, which managed to fend off the assault with help from Confederate ground forces. On May 24 ...