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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CAG_brown-bears-of-awcc_Anchorage-AK.html
Good Clean Livin
The largest bear enclosure in the United States is found here at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. Solar electricity powers the electric fence that encloses 18 acres of land, and water is pumped into the pond by the rota…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CAF_moose-calves_Anchorage-AK.html
Calves are born mid-May to early June. Cows give birth to twins 15 to 75 percent of the time and triplets occur about once in every 1,000 births.
Calves stand within minutes and begin eating vegetation a few days after birth.
Calves stay wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CAE_1964-earthquake_Anchorage-AK.html
This cabin was part of the original Portage town site. The small coastal towns of Girdwood and Portage located on Turnagain Arm were destroyed in the 1964 earthquake. Girdwood was later relocated a few miles inland, while Portage, which subsided b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CAD_a-prickly-world_Anchorage-AK.html
Some Points about Quills:
*Porcupines have approximately 30,000 quills which cover every part of the body except the underside, face and ears.
*Quills are modified hairs that are barbed, lightweight, and filled with spongy substance.
*Qui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMP_anchorage-aloft_Anchorage-AK.html
Few places on earth need air transportation more than Alaska. Towns and villages are isolated, with few roads and even fewer places to build them. Since 1913, when the first tractor biplane was brought to the Anchorage area, Alaskans have pioneere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BMN_the-earth-did-quake_Anchorage-AK.html
"And, behold ? The earth did quake and the rocks rent;"Matthew 27:51A description of the first Good Friday The gruesome dance of the earth finally stopped, leaving much of downtown Anchorage in ruins.In four minutes of violent shaking, many buil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BM0_turnagain-heights-slide_Anchorage-AK.html
You are standing on the edge of the Turnagain Heights Slide, the largest and most destructive landslide in Anchorage.
Ninety seconds into the Good Friday Earthquake, an 8,000-foot strip of bluff, 1,200 feet wide began cracking apart into larger…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BLZ_tsunami_Anchorage-AK.html
More devastating than the Good Friday Earthquake itself, the seismic sea waves or tsunamis, that followed caused the major loss of life and property in Alaska. Tsunamis are generated by the sudden upward movement of the seafloor along the rupturi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BLY_what-is-this-rock-man_Anchorage-AK.html
For generations the Inuit people of Northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska have constructed these rock monuments for hunting and navigational purposes. Our inuksuk is a giant version based on similar monuments found throughout the Arctic.
Inuks…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BLX_resolution-park-1776-1778_Anchorage-AK.html
1776Two events destined to change the history of the world took place the first week of July 1776.
On the fourth day of July, the Representatives of the United States of America, in general congress assembled at Philadelphia, declared their ind…