- 1926

Great fire that nearly destroyed the city of Douglas, Alaska. Oct 10th 1926. Alaska State Library, ASL Place File Photos, Elite Studios photo, ASL-Douglas Fires-12

On October 10 a major fire spread by Taku winds destroyed the entire eastern side of Douglas, including the Native village, and the original Treadwell mine area.  Past the mine’s cave-in site, other buildings were spared, including the foundry which continued to operate until the 1944 closure of the Alaska June mine.  The Treadwell post office was closed the end of May, due to lack of business.

Camp No. 2 of the Alaska Native Sisterhood was officially established in Juneau.

The Alaska magazine, a new Juneau-based publication devoted to geography, history and commerce of Alaska, was started in December. (Not the current Alaska magazine, which started as The Alaska Sportsman in 1934 in Ketchikan.)

The Peerless Bakery and several nearby buildings were damaged by a dynamite bomb explosion October 26 inside the bakery, but no motive was determined nor perpetrator found.

A U. S. Navy air squadron of three planes and a tender, which conducted aerial photographic surveys, arrived in Juneau August 11 from Ketchikan to continue its work in the region. The Auke Lake Loop bridge over the Mendenhall River opened August 28. It was believed to be the only covered bridge in the Territory at that time. The Forest Service trail from Glacier Highway to Windfall Lake was completed by late June.

The motor vessel Estabeth of the Davis Transportation Company completed eight years of service June 3 as contract mail boat on routes from Juneau to Sitka and Juneau to Skagway, including way ports on each run. In 816 trips, she made a total of 327,600 miles covering the two routes.