Tagged: Kenai Lake

This is the cabin that Nellie and Billie Lawing disassembled and floated to their Roadhouse location at Kenai Lake. Once reassembled they used it as a cafe. It and three other Lawing buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Alaska Nellie was an Alaska legend

Nellie Neal Lawing was born in 1873 and grew up on a Missouri farm. According to her 1940 autobiography, “Alaska Nellie,” since childhood she had an adventuresome spirit, and her mother called her “half...

Most likely, the old storage structure at Lawing on the eastern shore of Kenai Lake was originally a railroad work crew housing unit, capable of being transported on a flat car.

Railroads played important part in the development of Lake Kenai’s eastern shore

Kenai Lake, located 20 miles north of Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, has hosted visitors since the early 1900s. During the Cook Inlet gold rush in the mid to late 1890s a winter-only...

Old Cooper Landing store and post office now tell area’s history as a museum

Old Cooper Landing store and post office now tell area’s history as a museum

The hamlet of Cooper Landing, on the banks of the Kenai River just west of Kenai Lake, is one of the Kenai Peninsula’s recreation meccas. The community traces its history back to the 1896-97...