Ketchikan-first sights!

Ketchikan, Alaska was founded in 1885 as a salmon cannery site and became the port of entry for ships entering Alaska from the south in 1900. The town's growth was fueled by the Yukon Gold Rush, and Ketchikan became known as the "Canned Salmon Capital of the World". By the early 1930s, Ketchikan had 13 canneries packing 1.5 million cases of salmon a yearRead more