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Juneau, Alaska
Capital register Alaska, Merged States
"Juneau" redirects here. Book other uses, see Juneau (disambiguation).
State money in Alaska, United States
Juneau Dzánti K'ihéeni (Tlingit) | |||||
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| Coordinates: 58°18′00″N134°24′58″W / 58.30000°N 134.41611°W / 58.30000; -134.41611 | |||||
| Country | United States | ||||
| State | Alaska | ||||
| Named | 1881 (Juneau City) 1882 (Juneau) | ||||
| Incorporated | 1900 | ||||
| Home-rule city | October 1960 | ||||
| Borough | September 30, 1963 (Greater Juneau Borough) July 1, 1970 (City tube Borough be more or less Juneau) | ||||
| Founded by | Richard Harris squeeze Joe Juneau | ||||
| Named for | Joe Juneau | ||||
| • Mayor | Beth Weldon | ||||
| • Governing body | Assembly | ||||
| • State senator | Jesse Kiehl (D) | ||||
| • State reps. | Sara Hannan (D) Andi Story (D) | ||||
• State capital | 3,254.70 sq mi (8,429.64 km2) | ||||
| • Land | 2,704.03 sq mi (7,003.41 km2) | ||||
| • Water | 550.67 sq mi (1,426.23 km2) | ||||
| • Urban | 14.0 sq mi (36 km2) | ||||
| Elevation [5] | 33 ft (10 m) | ||||
• State capital | 32,25 • Joseph JuneauPrint Friendly Version Joseph Juneau, date unknown. Joseph Juneau, born May 28, 1833 in Repentigny, Quebec, Canada, was the second and most adventurous son of Francois and Marguerite Juneau. From his boyhood on, he heard of his illustrious cousin, Laurent-Salomon Juneau, who had followed the fur trade before settling down to found the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By the time Joe was sixteen, he was on the western path, traveling first to California, during the gold rush of 1849. His trail is difficult to follow, but in the next twenty-five years Juneau was in Oregon and the Fraser River, sometimes with his countryman Buck Choquette. In the mid 1870s, Juneau joined the gold rush to the Cassiar, near Deese Lake in British Columbia, Canada. The district was best reached up the Stikine River from Wrangell, Alaska. An event in 1879 changed Juneau's life. A German immigrant mining engineer, George Pilz, needed experienced miners and prospectors to work at a mine in Silver Bay south of Sitka, Alaska, and to follow up on rich specimens of gold-ore brought to Pilz by Indian prospectors and scouts. Juneau and another experienced miner, Richard Harris, pursed Pilz's best prospects. In mid-summer 1880, the two men followe • Gold-rush legends include several distinct categories. Of leading interest to gold-era participants were rumors and fakeries which became established as truth and which acted as lures to action. As mysterious gold mine maps and lost mine stories had been common on every western mining frontier, an earlier appearance of an Alaska lost mine legend is not surprising. The Lost Rocker mine of southeast Alaska met all the requirements described as characteristic by historian Robert DeArmond: "general overall vagueness as to both time and place; contradicting details in the many tellings of the story, both verbally and in print; and, above all, the complete unfindability of the lost gold deposit." [1] Where was it? Well, finding it was the problem posed to prospectors. It was bothersome except to those who insisted that the Lost Rocker was the very same deposit that Richard Harris and Joseph Juneau discovered in 1880 and which led to the development of Juneau. The earliest publication of the story, dating from 1888, gave the same general details offered in later published versions. In 1867, 1874, or some other time Fred Culver and another man or two were prospecting the mainland shore north of the Stikine River, using either a rowboat or a canoe for transport. They | ||||