Museum Memories
Miles Glacier Bridge was the world’s first example of arctic engineering. The techniques for setting the foundations and steelwork for the bridge became standards...
Museum Memories
One of the earliest floating canneries in Prince William Sound was brought in for the crab harvest. To prepare the crab for market, the...
Museum Memories
A crab fishery developed during the late 1920s and in 1929 a record shipment of crab left on the S.S. Alaska from Cordova’s port. ...
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...
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
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
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
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
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
By the mid 1980s, the economy of Cordova was booming again as many of the fisheries took on a new life with improved methods...
