Haines (Alaska)

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Haines
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Location in Alaska
Haines (Alaska)
Haines
Haines
Basic data
Foundation : January 24, 1910
State : United States
State : Alaska
Borough : Haines Borough
Coordinates : 59 ° 14 ′  N , 135 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 59 ° 14 ′  N , 135 ° 27 ′  W
Time zone : Alaska ( UTC − 9 / −8 )
Residents : 1,713 (as of 2010)
Population density : 48.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 55.8 km 2  (approx. 22 mi 2 ) of
which 35 km 2  (approx. 14 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 11 m
Area code : +1 907
FIPS : 02-31050
GNIS ID : 1422400

Haines is a small town at the northern end of the Chilkat Peninsula in Alaska ( USA ) and at the same time the administrative seat and only municipality of the Haines Borough .

Besides Skagway , Haines is the only land accessible port on the Alaska Panhandle . This is where the Haines Highway ends , which branches off from the Alaska Highway at Haines Junction in the Canadian Yukon Territory .

history

Around 1870, George Dickinson , a merchant from the San Francisco area, established a trading post for barter with the Tlingit with the permission of the Russian administration . He even married a Tlingit woman who helped him as an interpreter and manager during his absence and founded the first Tlingit school around 1880.
In the autumn of 1881, Dickinson happened to meet the brothers Aurel Krause and Arthur Krause , who had just visited the coasts and areas near the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula between Uelen on Cape Deschnjow and the Prowidenija Bay in the south on behalf of the Geographical Society in Bremen , and invited them to to spend the upcoming winter in his trading quarters in Alaska to study the culture of the Tlingit Indians. Thereupon the Krauses changed their travel plans and went first to Chilkoot at the northern end of the Lynn Canal in Alaska , where Dickinson also had a trading office. Aurel Krause stayed in southern Alaska until April 1882 and dealt mainly with ethnological field research, including natural history and geographical observations. In his fundamental work, The Tlinkit Indians , published in 1885, he described the customs and traditions, religion and language of the Tlingit Indian people for the first time.

Starting in 1896, more than a hundred thousand gold prospectors, known as stampeders , flocked to the coast of Alaska on board steamers to get to the Klondike River area near Dawson . The two ports of Haines and Pyramide Harbor became the starting point for the 396 kilometers through mountainous terrain (Chilkat Pass) leading Dalton Trail to Fort Selkirk in Canada . The traditional way of life of the Indian inhabitants changed fundamentally as a result of the gold rush .

  • Mrs. Dickinson, the first Haines businesswoman

  • The house of the chief of Klokwan

  • Sketch of the interior of a typical house in Klokwan

  • House portal in Klokwan decorated with carvings

  • The burial place of the Klokwan Indian settlement

  • Magnificent weaving works were created during the winter months.

literature

Web links

Commons : Haines  - collection of images, videos and audio files