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The Alaska Purchase saw the Russian Empire transfer Alaska to the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023). On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.
Pages in category "Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
June 20, 1980. ( #80000746) Northeast of central Anchorage. 61°27′30″N 149°20′24″W. / 61.45847°N 149.33992°W / 61.45847; -149.33992 ( Eklutna Power Plant) Anchorage. Anchorage's first hydroelectric plant, built 1929. Currently known as the Old Eklutna Power Plant as a new dam and power plant has been built elsewhere in 1955.
Portlock, Alaska. Coordinates: 59°12′52″N 151°44′46″W. Portlock ( Sugpiaq: Arrulaa'ik) is a ghost town in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern edge of the Kenai Peninsula, around 16 miles (26 km) south of Seldovia. [1] It is located in Port Chatham bay, from which an adjacent community takes its name. [2]
Saul, Norman. "California-Alaska trade, 1851–1867: The American Russian commercial company and the Russian America company and the sale/purchase of Alaska." Journal of Russian American Studies 2.1 (2018): 1–14. online; Vinkovetsky, Ilya (2011). Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804–1867. New York, NY: Oxford ...
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field. / 70.30667°N 148.73250°W / 70.30667; -148.73250. Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a large oil field on Alaska 's North Slope. It is the largest oil field in North America, covering 213,543 acres (86,418 ha) and originally contained approximately 25 billion barrels (4.0 × 10 9 m 3) of oil. [1]
Lumber is the most common and widely used method of sawing logs. Plain sawn lumber is produced by making the first cut on a tangent to the circumference of the log. Each additional cut is then made parallel to the one before. This method produces the widest possible boards with the least amount of log waste.
Timber rafting on the Willamette River (May 1973). Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. It is arguably, after log driving, the second cheapest means of transporting felled timber.
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