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English: Tents at Ship Creek, ca. 1916 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Tents at Ship Creek, ca. 1916 |
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English: Caption on image: The beginning of Anchorage, Alaska PH Coll 247.472 In 1915 President Woodrow Wilson authorized funds for the construction of the Alaska Railroad. Ship Creek Landing was selected as the headquarters of this effort, coordinated by the fledgling Alaskan Engineering Commission. A "Tent City" sprang up in the wilderness at the mouth of Ship Creek, and soon swelled to a population of over 2,000. On July 9, 1915, the Anchorage townsite auction was held, and over 600 lots in a fixed grid were sold for approximately $150,000. Although the area had been known by various names, in this same year the U.S. Post Office Department formalized the use of the name "Anchorage" and despite some protests the name stuck.
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Depicted place | Anchorage, Alaska | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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circa 1916 date QS:P571,+1916-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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Order Number InfoField | THW247 |
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