Museum Memories
Cutting a swath through a winter’s deposit of snow is one of the four rotary snowplows that earned their keep for the Copper River...
Museum Memories
In May 1909, Cordova was beginning to really change. According to the Cordova Daily Alaskan, “… Messers, Heney and Hawkins, who arrived yesterday, took...
Museum Memories
The Museum receives numerous requests for research of one type or another throughout the year and one we recently filled was regarding the major...
Museum Memories
Winter proved frustrating, hazardous and even deadly for railroad workers building the Copper River and Northwestern Railway. Two days after this photo was taken...
Museum Memories
As Alaskans remember the large gold strikes of 100 years ago, Cordovans experienced something of a gold rush in 1913 when a placer strike...
Museum Memories
Trains and boats side by side in Cordova – a common sight during
the ’20s and ’30s. Here the Copper River and Northwestern Railway cars...
Museum Memories
Early Cordovan fishing vessels photographed at Parks Crossing on Eyak River. Named for the cannery that existed near the mouth of Eyak River which...
Museum Memories
This picturesque photo of St. George’s Church was taken by Eustace P. Ziegler, priest and architect of this local landmark. On April 10, 1918,...
Museum Memories
The booming metropolis of Cordova at the turn of the century, complete with an unpaved First Street and wooden boardwalk through town. Not many...
Museum Memories
Honoring the colors of the American flag are the military personnel stationed at the Mile 13 air base. Note in the background the tail...