The Future Moved South in the late 1890s
Early Ketchikan was boosted when several prominent Wrangell business people relocated Thursday (SitNews) - For recent generations, Wrangell has bee...
Early Ketchikan was boosted when several prominent Wrangell business people relocated Thursday (SitNews) - For recent generations, Wrangell has been Ketchikan's smaller neighbor to the north, even though "The Gateway to the Stikine" has a much longer history, having been a Russian outpost and a Hudson's Bay Company settlement going back to the 1830s. It even played a significant role in the founding and growth of Ketchikan when several prominent Wrangellites moved South in the early 1900s because they believed Ketchikan had a better mining future than Wrangell.