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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BLW_measuring-the-magnitude-of-damage_Anchorage-AK.html
Measuring the Magnitude of DamageThe Good Friday Earthquake destroyed or severely restricted all forms of transportation, utilities and communications over a large part of south-central Alaska. Communications and UtilitiesThe complete or partia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKU_ice-age-hunters_Healy-AK.html
High above river valleys, at overlooks like this, Denali's first human visitors watch for mammoth, giant bison, and caribou. Ridge tops made the best game launching platforms; herds tend to follow sheltered stream corridors.
Hunters had to be …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BJB_patsy-ann-her-statue_Juneau-AK.html
Fifty years after Patsy Ann met her last ship, admirers led by June Dawson organized the Friends of Patsy Ann. The group raised funds and commissioned a statue so Patsy Ann could once again greet visitors on the dock.
Sculpted by Ann Burke Har…