The Shrine of St. Therese, located 22 miles north of Juneau at picturesque Pearl Harbor, along Favorite Channel, is a Catholic religious retreat center. It is adjacent to Glacier Highway. Its genesis dates to...
Treadwell was a company mining town just south of Douglas on Douglas Island. Associated with the town was the Treadwell Complex — four interlinked mines strung out along the island’s shore. During its lifetime,...
The building shown in the drawing, at 500 Third St. in Cordova, was originally the home of Samuel Blum and his family. Blum was a banker and merchant who was active in Southeast and...
Sentinel Island, located along Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage, was the location of one of the first U.S. lighthouses built in Alaska. (Towards the end of the Russian-American Company occupation of Alaska it had a...
The buildings shown in the drawing, part of Jualpa Mine Camp, are in Last Chance Basin, located along Gold Creek a mile above Juneau. They are a remnant of the Alaska Juneau Mine (AJ),...
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church as it looks today St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, 326 Fifth St., Juneau, is the oldest continually-used Orthodox church in Southeast Alaska, and the only surviving octagonal Orthodox church in Alaska....
We were down in Juneau for a few days last week. Saturday morning we went out to Mendenhall Glacier. Most of the area was still in shadow (hense the blue cast to the photos)....
