Exciting news for local history fans – we have just have just added two books to our expanding local history collection: R.N. “Bob” DeArmond’s definitive history The Founding of Juneau and a new very accurate and detailed historical novel The Treadwell Carpenter by...
EXTRA, EXTRA – READ ALL ABOUT IT! In the GASTINEAU HERITAGE NEWS… Our latest edition is now available – Spring/Summer 2025 features the history of Juneau’s “golden age of hydropower”. Gold put Juneau on the map, but waterpower turned into electricity kept it on...
EXTRA, EXTRA – READ ALL ABOUT IT! In the GASTINEAU HERITAGE NEWS… Our latest edition is now available (Fall/Winter 2025) Life on the Slime Line, a history of the Juneau Cold Storage, is the fascinating centerpiece of this fall’s newsletter. Written by “citizen...
Good news update ! Sentinel Island Lighthouse is shining bright again! The lighthouse has been fully repaired and painted by a team of lighthouse restoration experts, contracted this spring by our society. Funded by various grants, private donations, fund-raising...
Regular hours: The museum is now closed for this season, but will re-open May 16th for the 2026 summer season. For additional information about the Museum contact the Last Chance Mining Museum at 907-586-5338 or glrrlg@alaska.net, or by mail at 1001 Basin Road,...
In the winter of 1955-1956, fifty-five men and women gathered on the Fairbanks campus to hammer out the nation’s newest state constitution. Six delegates were from Juneau, half of them women. In addition, Katie Hurley and Tom Stewart of Juneau served as staff to the...
