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| Keywords: Cordova street scene, ca 1912 (THWAITES 195).jpeg check categories 27 October 2016 6 Photograph Creator John E Thwaites Caption on image Cordova Alaska PH Coll 247 469<br/>Cordova is located at the southeastern end of Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska The community was built on Orca Inlet at the base of Eyak Mountain It lies 52 air miles southeast of Valdez and 150 miles southeast of Anchorage The area has historically been the home to Aleuts with the addition of migrating Athabascan and Tlingit natives who called themselves Eyaks Alaskan Natives of other descents also settled in Cordova Orca Inlet was originally named Puerto Cordova by Don Salvador Fidalgo in 1790 One of the first producing oil fields in Alaska was discovered at Katalla 47 miles southeast of Cordova in 1902 The town of Cordova was named in 1906 by Michael Heney builder of the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad Cordova became the railroad terminus and ocean shipping port for copper ore from the Kennecott Mine up the Copper River The first trainload of ore was loaded onto the steamship Northwestern bound for a smelter in Tacoma Washington in April 1911 The Bonanza-Kennecott Mines operated until 1938 and yielded over 200 million in copper silver and gold The Katalla oil field produced until 1933 when it was destroyed by fire Fishing became the economic base in the early 1940s Subjects LCTGM Cordova Alaska ; Cities towns--Alaska; Streets--Alaska--Cordova; People--Alaska--Cordova; Street lights--Alaska--Cordova; Utility poles--Alaska--Cordova; Dirt roads--Alaska--Cordova; Stores shops--Alaska--Cordova; Dwellings--Alaska--Cordova depicted place Cordova Alaska ca 1912 Institution University of Washington UWASH-THWAITES-source accession number thwaites 195 PD-old-auto-1923 1940 Information field Order Number THW244 Images from the John E Thwaites Photographs of Alaska Collection to check Cordova Alaska Streets in Alaska People of Alaska Street lights Utility poles Dirt roads | ||||
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