Category: Prince William Sound

George Cheever Hazelet helped develop Valdez and Cordova

Hazelet’s house in Cordova as it looks today George Cheever Hazelet was a resident of Omaha, Nebraska when news of the Klondike gold strike reached the contiguous United States in 1897. Even though he...

Cordova’s Red Dragon provided Christian alternative to city’s saloons

  The Red Dragon, a Christian social club run by the Episcopal Church, as it looked in 1909. The drawing is based on a photo in the Walter and Lillian Phillips photograph collection at...

Bingle Memorial Camp namesake was indefatigable worker

Bingle camp lodge as it looked in 2001 Bingle Memorial Camp is set on a picturesque 66 acre heavily-wooded parcel along the south shore of Harding Lake, about 47 miles southeast of Fairbanks. It...