Three Thousand Pack Animals

Historical marker location:

157 Broadway, Skagway AK 99840, Skagway, Alaska

( Marker is on Centennial Park south of Broadway.)

Marker installed: 1997

Alaska was once owned by Russia and was known as "Russian America". The Russians established their first settlement on the Kenai Peninsula in 1786, and Alaska remained a Russian colony until it was sold to the United States in 1867.