#Funter bay internment camp cemetery free

(5) 1960 census noted annexations to Juneau since 1950 (an explanation for dropping earlier census sub-units and consolidation of numbers?) (4) 1950 census added Auke Bay village, dropped AJ Camp (the AJ mine closed in 1944), Douglas Island, and Treadwell, noted Lena Beach and Tee Harbor separately so left these sub-units in the Glacier Highway subdivision. (3) 1940 census reported the 1940 population numbers as collected for 1939, added a sub-unit for AJ Camp which is included in Juneau, Glacier Highway includes Lena Beach and Tee Harbor, and a separate one for Douglas Island outside Douglas city limits, Treadwell townsite. (2) 1940 census reported the 1930 population numbers as collected for 1929 Transportation and Communication – End of Gold Mining, Suburban Developmentġ938-1959 World War II and Early Cold War EraĬommercial and Residential Buildings Institutional and Educational Buildings Religious and Social Buildings Expanded Roadways Juneau Airport Mining Sites and Ruins Commercial and Residential Buildings Institutional and Educational Buildings Religious and Social BuildingsĬommerce and Economic Development – Peak Gold Mining, Beginning Territorial Government Population, Exploration, and Settlement – Discovery of GoldĬommerce and Economic Development – Early Gold Mining Lifeways and Ethnicity – Tlingit Occupation Table 1 – Historic Themes, Time Periods, and Property Types for Juneau History Preservation Plan.

#Funter bay internment camp cemetery free

Do feel free to contact us with your own suggestions and contributions to include. From that time on-ward, we have much less material to easily draw from as with “Digital Bob”, so it will be an ongoing process to research newspapers and compile our lists of events to publish here.

We are greatly indebted to Robert “Bob” DeArmond as the primary source for most events 1880-1951, who had compiled thousands of individual notes from newspapers and other sources in that period, that he shared in his weekly columns over the course of about thirty years in local Juneau papers. What are the criteria used for inclusion of events in this timeline? In general, events are selected that show development contributing to economic growth both short and long-term, cultural and social events that help define the times, political events or movements that affect course of area development, natural events that disrupt otherwise “normal” development, and occasionally just plain strange, unusual, or unique events not otherwise noted in academic histories.

General time periods of Juneau’s history up through the latter 20th century are outlined in a Juneau History Preservation Plan for the City and Borough of Juneau (CBJ) in Table 1. Carstensen rightly emphasizes that the Juneau area is the homeland of Tlingit peoples from the Aak’w Kwaan clan, and the T’ aaku clan on its southern boundaries, and we defer to his selection of events prior to the arrival of Euro-American settlers who established the camp and colonized the area thereafter. Events prior to 1880 are summarized in brief overview from Carstensen’s Natural History of Juneau Trails, a Watershed Approach, 2013, and several other Alaska history sources. Our timeline attempts to highlight local events each year in Juneau’s recorded history since its inception as a gold mining camp in 1880 and its subsequent development afterwards. The law officially protects 250 acres of land on Admiralty Island by adding it to the Funter Bay Marine Park.Every timeline is subjective depending on the objectives of its creator.

'It's a piece of human history because I like to say that we as a people, as a nation, as a state, we are still capable of these atrocities and this can happen again and is happening again at different levels throughout the country, throughout other countries,' Stepetin said and added, 'That is why we have to remember this so that we don't ever allow it to happen to us again as a people.' Stepetin thanked Governor Dunleavy for signing the bill last week and Representative Hannan for her hard work through the legislative process. Unangan people from the Pribilof Islands were placed in internment camps in Southeast Alaska, including at Funter Bay, during World War II including both sets of Martin's grandparents. Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The bill that formally protects the cemetery at Funter Bay on Admiralty Island was sponsored by Juneau Representative Sara Hannan but she gives the credit to Martin Stepetin.