Immaculate Conception Church

Historical marker location:

115 Cushman Street, Fairbanks, Alaska

( Marker is on Cushman Street south of Illinois Street, on the right when traveling north.)

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.