ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – This week’s We The People, hosted by Justin Mattson and Joe Allgood, brings us all across the state.
Sept. 8:
- In 1906, the Office of the Governor opened in Juneau after being moved from Sitka. This happened six years after Congress authorized the move.
Sept. 10:
- In 1907, the Tongass National Forest was established in Southeast Alaska.
- In 1918, the “Golden Spike” was driven in the railroad that connected Seward and Anchorage.
- In 1949, the director of the Boston Museum proposed installing a cosmic ray laboratory at the 18,000-foot Denali Pass on Mt. McKinley.
Sept. 11:
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- In 1958, poet Robert W. Service died in Monte Carlo at the age of 89. The…