Anchorage was founded in the same year as the headquarters of the railroad and was incorporated in Completion of the Alaska Railroad led to the first visit to Alaska by a U. Warren G. Harding came to Alaska to drive the ceremonial golden spike on July 15, He died in San Francisco on the return trip. Elmendorf Field and Fort Richardson were built during the war.
Nicholas, established The Lake Illiamna post is also destroyed in the late s. It provided for a limited civil government, with a governor, judges, clerks, marshals, and local U. Hope also known as Hope City , built at the mouth of Resurrection Creek , and Sunrise rapidly grow into large towns and become supply centers for gold seekers and other adventurers.
James Girdwood stakes placer claim at Crow Creek Estimated , to , gold seekers attempt to travel north to the Klondike River Valley Yukon. Disappointed gold seekers move on to more promising finds in the Klondike and Nome areas or return to the states. Army exploring expediton under Captain Edwin Forbes Glenn maps Cook Inlet area, investigates routes of travel for the most practicable overland trails, etc.
Thomas Jeter builds a cabin near Government Hill in or A section of the law creates the Alaska Railroad Commission to investigate the railroad situation in Alaska.
Over 2, prospective workers and merchants live in ragged tents and temporary wooden buildings under unsanitary conditions. On a plateau above the creek, lots are laid out on a acre townsite under the supervision of the General Land Office, with Andrew Christensen in charge. Post Office Department assigns the name of Anchorage to the new town and appoints Roydon Chase as the first postmaster. All mail is sent to Anchorage and not Ship Creek.
The establishment of the Anchorage post office firmly establishes the new name and it is quickly adopted on maps and in news accounts. It evolved into the Anchorage Daily Times. District Court at Anchorage, when H. Nagley alleges that two boat operators Johann Bartels and L. The records do not show whether Nagley got his money. There were votes cast, with the highest number, , for Alaska City. Lane , with votes. Third choice was Anchorage votes. Alaska Governor J. Explains how Yakutat terrane accretion drives mountain building and crustal fault earthquakes like the M7.
A documentary chronicling the first 72 hours after the Alaska Earthquake and the response to the disaster by the United States Office of Civil Defense, U. Military, and local, state, and federal officials. Includes extensive archival footage of the earthquake and aftermath. These films were shot by amateur and professional cameramen in the hours and days following the earthquake at locations such as Anchorage, Kodiak, Seward, Valdez, Chenega, Afognak.
An examination of the Alaska Good Friday Earthquake from a pre- plate tectonics theory geological point of view. Plafker spent most of the summer in Alaska researching and documenting the earthquake. The earthquake was a defining moment in a territory that had just achieved statehood. Fifty years later, it continues to shape Alaska, its people, and the science of earthquakes.
USGS circular published one month after the earthquake by Arthur Grantz, George Plafker, and Reuben Kachadoorian detailing their scientific investigations of the quake. Seismically triggered landslides are one of the greatest geologic hazards in Anchorage.
These maps, by Randall W. The death toll reached people: 15 died during the initial tremors and the rest in the subsequent tsunamis and landslides. Geological surveys taken immediately afterward showed parts of the Alaskan coast sank up to eight feet, other parts rose up to 38 feet and much of the coast moved 50 feet towards the ocean.
Coastal forests plunged below sea level and were destroyed by salt water. As the tremors ended, local tsunamis sprung up almost immediately, leaving residents little to no time to flee for higher ground. A massive tidal wave crushed the small, coastal village of Chenega four minutes after the tremors subsided—the town lost a third of its population. Local tsunamis also caused destruction in Kodiak, Whittier and Seward. Downtown Anchorage had the most property damage mainly due to immense landslides, one of which dropped the business district nine feet.
In the Turnagain Heights area of Anchorage, soil liquefaction when the ground behaves like a liquid triggered a landslide which moved parts of a suburban bluff 2, feet into the bay, taking up to 75 homes with it.
The control tower at Anchorage International Airport collapsed, killing an air traffic controller. Thousands of strong aftershocks continued for weeks after the earthquake, some measuring greater than magnitude 6.
Reports of residual water sloshing seiches came in from the U. Gulf Coast and as far away as Australia. The town of Valdez was originally built on sand and gravel.
Valdez was basically leveled. The largest tsunami wave of the Alaska Earthquake measured over feet in height and was recorded at Shoup Bay near the Valdez inlet. In addition to local tsunamis caused by underground landslides, the earthquake triggered an enormous tectonic tidal wave. After wreaking havoc on southeastern Alaskan coastal towns that had already endured local tsunamis, the tectonic tsunami made its way to British Columbia where it ravaged small villages along the coastline near Vancouver.
The tsunami, which caused massive property damage in Washington , Oregon and California , also claimed four lives in Oregon and 12 in California.
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