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Anchorage was originally settled as a tent city near the mouth of Ship Creek in 1915, and a planned townsite was platted alongside the bluff to the south. Anchorage was mostly a company town for the Alaska Railroad for its first several decades of existence.
Anchorage’s development began in 1915, when Congress authorized construction of the only federally owned railroad in the nation’s history. It would run from tidewater to Alaska’s Interior, passing the coal deposits of the Matanuska Valley.
Há 5 dias · Anchorage, city (municipality), south-central Alaska, U.S. Lying at the base of the Chugach Mountains, it is a port at the head of Cook Inlet (a bay of the Pacific Ocean). In 1835 Russians established a mission across the inlet from the area that constitutes the modern city of Anchorage.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Anchorage is in Southcentral Alaska, at the terminus of the Cook Inlet, on a peninsula formed by the Knik Arm to the north and the Turnagain Arm to the south. First settled as a tent city near the mouth of Ship Creek in 1915 when construction on the Alaska Railroad began, Anchorage was incorporated as a city in November 1920.
Historical Events. 1700-1800. 1741--1800: European exploration. 1741-1742: Bering-Chirikov expedition to Alaska. Russian Imperial Navy squadron, under Danish navigator Vitus Jonassen Bering and his second in command, Aleksei Chirikov, make landfalls on Alaska’s coast (1741), but do not enter Cook Inlet.
Much has changed when it comes to the history of Anchorage Alaska. From a crude tent city on the muddy backs of Ship Creek in 1914, to the skyline of today's modern Anchorage, with all the services and amenities you'd expect to find anywhere in the United States.
Learn the history of the Dena'ina Athabascan homelands within which Anchorage is located, witness evidence of the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, hear tales of Alaska settlers, check out vintage aircraft, and learn about Alaska's Russian influences.
