Museum Memories
And on this day before Christmas Eve, we share a photo of a snowy Christmas Eve in Cordova circa 1920, looking as pretty as...
Museum Memories
Cordova’s first city hall was an old wooden structure that dated back to 1935, but conveniently housed the administration, civil defense, fire and police...
Museum Memories
Recently the City of Cordova Port and Harbor hosted a booth at the 2016 Fish Expo in Seattle. Not only is it a great...
Museum Memories
During the early days in Cordova, there was a small gold rush to Shushana and Cordova was the starting point for those gold seekers....
Museum Memories
At the recent Cordova Historical Society dinner, a delicious clam dip hit the sweet spot for a lot of diners and made us all...
Museum Memories
This photo, taken in the late 1930s, shows the work completed on the spit by the Civilian Conservation Corps. This revetment was created to...
Museum Memories: First airplane landing in Cordova
Cordova had a lot going on in the roaring ’20s, but no air service until 1929, when the first airplane, a Gorst Air Loening...
Museum Memories
The history of formal schooling in Alaska is really two stories. One covers the origins and development of schools for those – mostly Euro-Americans...
