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Clover Pass is an unincorporated community in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska. [1] Workers organized and built the Clover Pass School in 1947 and it was used as a community center in the 1960s. Wards Cove was a shipwreck in the area after an engine fire sank it in 1929. [2] The area, on Clover Passage, includes a marina and is
Ketchikan Creek (alternate, "Fish Creek"; Tlingit, "Kitschkhin") is a salmon spawning stream [1] on Revillagigedo Island in the U.S. state of Alaska. It heads in a lake and travels through downtown Ketchikan [2] 6 miles (9.7 km) to Tongass Narrows. [3] The historic Creek Street in Ketchikan runs along the creek banks as a piling-perched ...
Wards Cove Packing Company was a cannery located in the community of Ward Cove, on the northern outskirts of the larger city of Ketchikan in the U.S. state of Alaska.The original Wards Cove Cannery was established in 1928, [1] on Ward Cove and operated several Alaskan salmon canneries, employing about 200 people during the peak season. [2]
Ketchikan (/ ˈ k ɛ tʃ ɪ k æ n / KETCH-ih-kan; [4] Tlingit: Kichx̱áan) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough on Revillagigedo Island of Alaska. [5] [6] It is the state's southeasternmost major settlement.
Ketchikan Gateway Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census its population was 13,948, up from 13,477 in 2010. [2] The borough seat is Ketchikan. [3] The borough is the second most populous borough in Southeast Alaska, the first being Juneau Borough.
The Clover Pass School is a historic school building in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska. It is located 16 miles (26 km) north of the city of Ketchikan , at the junction of Potter and Knudson Cove Roads.
KRBD continued to grow along with the State of Alaska's oil wealth. Within a few years, the station moved up to the Marine View's 10th floor, where it occupied two large apartment spaces. As it continued to grow, KRBD increased power to its current 3,400 watts and moved to a downtown Ketchikan location at 716 Totem Way, overlooking Ketchikan Creek.
The Ketchikan Daily News is the primary daily newspaper for Ketchikan, Alaska, founded in 1934. Lew Williams, Jr., who became the paper's managing editor in 1966, was well known in Alaska as an opinion columnist. Originally appearing mainly in the Anchorage Times, his columns were regularly published in many Alaskan newspapers up until his death.