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Throughout the country, important historic sites, homes, buildings, and museums are in trouble. Because of the recent rise in gasoline prices and the general world-wide financial collapse, historic sites and museums are in danger of closing. Some are being forced to sell off artifacts and property. Most operate on a thin margin and will not weather these hard times without your help.

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City of Ketchikan

Ketchikan is referrred to as the "first city of Alaska" for the simple reason that it is the first stop for most cruise ships headding north. None the less, it is not a small village but rather a medium size Alaskan city.

Welcome to Ketchikan, Alaska's First City.

Street with reflection.

image here Creek Street was a popular place for the men to play with the women - for a price.


Eagle.

Typical Ketchikan front yard with totem poles.

The Amsterdam, one of many cruise ship sailing Alaskan waters.


Float plane hangar with paddle wheeler behind.

Float Plane.

Float Plane.

When the Empress of the North was launched in 2003, it was the first sternwheeler to sail Alaska's Inside Passage in over 100 years. She was the second boat of the American West Steamboat Company and since 2006 she is part of the Majestic America Line fleet. The Empress was especially built for the Alaska cruise business with a deeper hull than traditional river boats to provides stability. The V-shaped bow allows the vessel to safely maneuver through the ice fields along Alaska's Inside Passage. She was designed by Seattle naval architects, Guido Perla & Associates and construction began at Nichols Brothers' shipyard in Freeland, WA in April 2002.

In the early morning hours of May 14, 2007, the Empress of the North hit Hanus Rock at the southern end of Icy Strait Point. All 206 guests and 42 of the 75 crew members were transported safely to Juneau, the rest of the crew nursing the Empress back to Juneau under its own power but still taking on water.

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City of Ketchikan