Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Part 2 Some Thoughts February 15-18, 1919 – 2019 ABOVE – By the time Seward was named the terminus of the new Government Railroad (later called the Alaska Railroad), panoramic photography like this was popular. This photo is circa 1915 and gives us an accurate idea of the Seward that Kent experienced in 1918. The large building at upper center is the government office and railroad headquarters. It was built about 1904-5 by the Alaska Central Railway, which went bankrupt and reorganized as the Alaska Northern Railway, which the government purchased in 1914-15. The church just left of center at the bottom is St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, built 1905-6. At left is Lowell Creek, a glacial stream working its way down from the mountains to the bay. In 1939-40 the U.S. Corps of Engineers diverted the stream through a tunnel in Bear Mountain, and now it emerges as a waterfall at the be...