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Seward’s First Dock
Photo courtesy of Resurrection Bay Historical Society
Construction of the Alaska Central Railway’s dock, at the end of what is now Fourth Avenue, started at noon on Aug. 29, 1903, the day after Seward’s founding.
Construction of the Alaska Central Railway’s dock, at the end of what is now Fourth Avenue, started at noon on Aug. 29, 1903, the day after Seward’s founding. The 150-foot long dock was completed in the spring of 1904 in time for the arrival of Alaska Central’s first locomotive on April 23, 1904 on the Santa Ana, the same ship which brought the founders to Resurrection Bay on Aug. 28, 1903. This photograph is from the Winter Collection at Seward Museum. George Winter was the auditor of disbarments for the Alaska Central Railway. He and his family lived in Seward from 1905 to 1907.
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