Ketchikan is an American city in Alaska. It is the county seat of Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Ketchikan is the largest city on Revillagigedo Iceland to Sitka and the second largest city of the Alexander Archipelago.
The economy of Ketchikan lives of fishing and tourism. The Misty Fjords National Monument is the main attraction of the city. In the northeast is the Tongass National Forest.
Ketchikan is named after Ketchikan Creek, the river that flows through the city.
The history of the place Ketchikan began in 1883 when a factory was built here for the salmon processing. In the early 1900s, in addition created a canning factory, was bottled in the salmon, and a department store. The community was officially registered in 1900 at which time Ketchikan had about 800 inhabitants.
With the start of mining in the Ketchikan region was a major trading center. Creek Street in a red light district, where at times up to thirty brothels were operated simultaneously and in which large portions of the salaries of the miners were issued again emerged.
With the decline of the mining industry, the economic focus shifted in place, to industrial fishing and the extraction of timber. The latter is, however, again become largely irrelevant in the meantime.
Ketchikan is visited by cruise ships. The passengers of the ships visit to nearby places with the set up there Saxman totem poles, and the Totem Heritage Center can also be seen in the Totem Bight State Park. One of the works were made in the context of the 1930s, launched by the Roosevelt administration's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) by the native Indians.
The economy of Ketchikan lives of fishing and tourism. The Misty Fjords National Monument is the main attraction of the city. In the northeast is the Tongass National Forest.
Ketchikan is named after Ketchikan Creek, the river that flows through the city.
The history of the place Ketchikan began in 1883 when a factory was built here for the salmon processing. In the early 1900s, in addition created a canning factory, was bottled in the salmon, and a department store. The community was officially registered in 1900 at which time Ketchikan had about 800 inhabitants.
With the start of mining in the Ketchikan region was a major trading center. Creek Street in a red light district, where at times up to thirty brothels were operated simultaneously and in which large portions of the salaries of the miners were issued again emerged.
With the decline of the mining industry, the economic focus shifted in place, to industrial fishing and the extraction of timber. The latter is, however, again become largely irrelevant in the meantime.
Ketchikan is visited by cruise ships. The passengers of the ships visit to nearby places with the set up there Saxman totem poles, and the Totem Heritage Center can also be seen in the Totem Bight State Park. One of the works were made in the context of the 1930s, launched by the Roosevelt administration's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) by the native Indians.
