Serving Alaska's Prince William Sound & Copper River Valley
Monday, December 23, 2024
The Valdez Museum and historical Archive is excited to announce the launch of our online virtual walking tour of Old Town Valdez. The virtual tour features historic sites marked by Pioneers of Alaska Igloos #7 and #2. Viewers can access historic photos and information which elaborate the story of Old […]
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – The World’s Boarding School history is brutal. But in this acclaimed play, Natives run the school and Whites are being assimilated. Quoted from the Assimilation Kickstarter campaign. Friday night’s performance of Assimilation was not a typical night at the theater. The play […]
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – Robert Campbell Reeve is best known as the founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways. He began his Alaska career flying out of Valdez in 1932. Before leaving Valdez in 1938, Reeve made over 2,000 glacier landings, hauling over one million pounds of freight. […]
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – The first museum in Valdez was founded in 1901 by prospector Joseph Bourke. He collected items of interest and displayed them in several places around town. When the town relocated after the 1964 earthquake, these items moved with it. Citizens of Valdez, […]
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – Hotel Hill, Hippy Hill, some people call it one and some call it the other. Either way, it’s disappearing before our eyes as the heavy equipment works at digging it up and hauling it away. The hill on South Harbor Drive in […]
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – Valdez is intimately connected with the history and politics of this state. We have taken part in its big events; the Alaska gold rush, the 1964 earthquake, the building of the Trans Alaska Pipeline, the Exxon Valdez oil spill. We have supplied […]
Advertisement Valdez Museum and Historical Archive will host a walking tour and photo shoot of Old Town on Friday July 1th followed by a workshop at the museum. The workshop will include a discussion of the photos taken and posting them on FaceBook followed by printing the images and making […]
Robert King, the Alaska State Archeologist for the Bureau of Land Management will be speaking in Valdez on Thursday March 12th and 13th. The first speech, entitled Curious Tales, Stories of Dog Mushers with Connections to the Copper River Basin, will be at The Valdez Consortium Library from 7:00 to […]
