Etholéngrad
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Etholéngrad, Alaska
Этоленград | |
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Incorporated township | |
| Etholéngrad Township | |
.jpeg) 1918, Etholéngrad | |
| Established | 1885 |
| Incorporated | 1900 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | John Taylor |
| Population (1930) | |
| • Incorporated township | TBD |
| • Urban | TBD |
| Time zone | UTCUTC-9 (Alaska) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTCUTC-8 (Alaska) |
Etholéngrad (Tlingit: Kichx̱áan; Russian: Этоленград) is an incorporated township in the Governorate of Alaska and the southeasternmost major settlement in Alaska. Ketchikan Creek flows through the town, emptying into the Tongass Narrows a short distance southeast of its downtown.
History
Ketchikan Creek served as a summer fish camp for Tlingit natives for untold years before the town was established by Mike Martin in 1885. He was sent to the area by an Oregon canning company to assess prospects. He established the saltery Clark & Martin and a general store with Nova Scotia native George Clark, who had been foreman at a cannery that burned down.[1] Ketchikan became known as "Alaska's first city" due to its strategic position at the southern tip of the Inside Passage, connecting the Gulf of Alaska to Puget Sound.
In 1900, the town's application to become an incorporated township was accepted though the town was renamed Etholéngrad to comply with naming conventions as per Governorate regulations. During the Stolypin Era an influx of Russians nationals and over one thousand Filipinos came to Etholéngrad though people of Canadian and American heritage remain the majority in the town.
In 1905 a mission house was built, which in 1909 became the Yates Memorial Hospital.
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