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
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
Talk about a rainy season! In October 1925 precipitation records came tumbling down and so did houses! On Oct. 12, 1925 the W.H. Liebe...
Museum Memories
Cordova’s neighboring community of Chitina was frozen in at some cold temperatures a few moons ago, but the bitter chill was influencing many portions...
Museum Memories
In May of 1912, the barge called Haydn Brown was entering Prince William Sound with eight on board and being towed by the tug,...
Museum Memories
Cordovans have, for many years, been traveling “out-the-road.” It’s just the mode of transportation that’s changed! This lovely young couple seems to be heading...
Museum Memories
It’s not Texas! This is our neighboring community of Chitina, up the Copper River and the photograph was likely taken in the early 1900s....
Museum Memories
This photo puts the song “Working on the Railroad” into a whole new light. Sometimes, accidents happen. There were times when the Copper River...
Museum Memories
The East Coast-based Alaskan Syndicate struggled with their Katalla route. Open to the Gulf of Alaska and its fierce weather, the docks and breakwaters...
Museum Memories
Mike Heney chose the name “Cordova” for the new townsite after learning of Spanish explorer Salvador Fidalgo’s naming of Cordoba Bay. The incorporation of...
