Ketchikan, Alaska

Ketchikan Gateway Borough

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Ketchikan is an American city in Alaska. It is the administrative center of Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Ketchikan is the largest city on Revillagigedo Iceland to Sitka and the second largest city of the Alexander Archipelago. The city is located in the south of the so-called Alaska Panhandle.

The economy of Ketchikan lives from fishing and tourism. The Misty Fjords National Monument is the main attraction of the city. In the northeast is the Tongass National Forest.

Ketchikan is named after the river Ketchikan Creek, which flows through the city.

History

The history of the place Ketchikan began in 1883, when a factory was built here for salmon processing. In the early 1900s, in addition developed a canning factory, was bottled in the salmon, and a department store. The community was officially registered in 1900; At this time, Ketchikan had about 800 inhabitants.

With the start of mining in the region Ketchikan was an important commercial center. In the Creek Street red-light district, where at times up to thirty brothels were operated simultaneously and in which large portions of the salaries of miners were reissued arose.

With the decline of the mining industry, the economic center of gravity in place shifted towards industrial fishing and the extraction of timber. The latter is, however, again become largely irrelevant in the meantime.

Tourism

Ketchikan is visited by cruise ships. The passengers of the ships visit the nearby places Saxman with the set up there totems, the totem and the Heritage Center can also be seen in the Totem Bight State Park. One of the works were made ​​in the context of the 1930s, launched by the Roosevelt Administration Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) by the native Indians

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Frank Murkowski, Polish- American politician
  • Lisa Murkowski, Polish-American politician
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