Cordova's Historic Buildings

Nancy Ross
Illustrated by Michael Anderson
Paperbound, 5.75 x 8.75,
27 pages
ISBN 0-9607358-1-X
Published 1983
$6.95
includes USPS postage

Cordova's Historic Buildings

Nancy Ross
Illustrated by Michael Anderson

In 1900 when one of the world's richest copper lodes was discovered in Alaska's Wrangell Mountains, Eyak was a fishing village of about 200 people between Odiak Slough and Eyak Lake. The flurry of activity set off by that discovery changed the little community forever. . . . The construction of the railroad to the copper mines drew hundreds of men to the little community of Eyak and it was soon bursting at the seams.

A new townsite, named Cordova, after the bay it overlooked, was laid out. The first lots were sold at auction in May 1908. The town thrived and its promoters unabashedly predicted it would become "the 'Frisco of the North." Cordova's Historic Buildings tells the story of some of the original structures.

Nancy Ross grew up in southern California and is a graduate of the University of California at Riverside. Since moving to Alaska in 1975, she has worked at the Anchorage Times and as news editor of the Cordova Times.

Michael Anderson grew up in Western Oregon, acquiring art skills from his parents. He received his B.A. in 1978 from Boise State University. Mike taught art in Idaho until he moved to Cordova in 1982.