This Month in Juneau History

                          

Enjoy this collection of local history snippets curated by Mary Pat Wyatt. Choose a month below to read about Juneau and Douglas history.

OCTOBER 29, 1921

Big Building Moved to New Location Here – Native Brotherhood Brings Hall from Treadwell to Willoughby Avenue.  Two ...

SEPTEMBER 3, 1945

Striking for a 25 percent pay raise, the Bartender’s Union yesterday threw picket lines around nine bars and two ...

SEPTEMBER 4, 1897

Professor John Muir was a Juneau visitor while the steamer Queen was in port. Muir was a visitor to Gastineau ...

SEPTEMBER 5, 1881

Alaska held its first election. A total of 294 voters cast ballots at Sitka, Harrisburg (Juneau), Wrangell, ...

SEPTEMBER 28, 1918

Local flooding due to heavy rains has caused at least $250,000 damage in the Juneau area, most of it along Gold ...

Early AUGUST 1794

Joseph Whidbey, sailing master aboard the HMS Discovery, is the first European credited with sighting the channel ...

August 14, 1928

K.K.K. burns fiery cross on knob back of Juneau --- Starr Hill.  A blast was set off first    then the cross was ...

AUGUST 15, 1896

On Monday the new 60 stamps in the Mexican mill will begin dropping for the first time. This will more than double ...

AUGUST 24, 1912

Sometimes the question is asked: "When did Juneau become the capital of the Territory of Alaska?" That's an easy ...

AUGUST 30, 1899

The lumber to plank Seward Street from Second Street up to the school house has arrived and will soon be in ...

JUNE 7, 1894

William Ebner will put in a new wire tramway this year to connect the Jumbo group of claims with the mill of the ...

JUNE 13, 1896

While Miss Rose Davenport, otherwise known as “the sweet-voiced songstress of the frozen north” was entertaining a ...
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