Museum Memories
The next series of pictures we publish will be in association with the 2017 Iceworm Tail Clues, since we do LOVE history!The fourth clue...
A look back at Exxon Valdez, 28 years later
Twenty-eight years ago, the spring dawned bright for Cordova but once again, tragedy was about to strike our working fishing community. Focused marketing had...
Good Friday earthquake devastated Copper River Highway
The 1964 Good Friday earthquake struck the Prince William Sound Region on March 27th. This magnitude 9.2 earthquake wrought major changes in the physical...
Museum Memories
By the mid 1980s, the economy of Cordova was booming again as many of the fisheries took on a new life with improved methods...
Museum Memories
Asian market and herring roe on kelp, long a Native delicacy, became very lucrative as a commercial harvest. Herring kelp pounding became a unique...
Museum Memories
The first trainload of ore from the Kennecott Mines reached Cordova on April 8, 1911, carrying 1,200 tons of high-grade copper ore with an...
Museum Memories
Things began looking up for Cordova by the spring of 1963. The Copper River Highway was on the horizon, fishing was about to start...
Museum Memories
This month marks the 51st anniversary of the founding of the Cordova Historical Society and the 50th anniversary of the first community museum in...
Museum Memories
A second cannery was built at Odiak in 1888 by the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, but after a fire, it was rebuilt at nearby...
Museum Memories
Natives at the nearby traditional village of Eyak began relocating to the new town to be near the canneries and by 1890. Odiak was...