A history of Hoonah,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Hoonah from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The clans comprising the Huna Tlingit originally settled what is now Glacier Bay National Park as well as Icy Strait, Cross Sound, and the outer coast north to Sea Otter Creek. Two catastrophic events forced the Tlingit from their homeland: rapid glacial advance in Glacier Bay and a landslide-induced tsunami in Lituya Bay along the outer coast. Tlingit oral tradition recounts these events as well as the clans' ultimate resettlement in Xunaa.
1750s - Xunaa was settled by clans fleeing glacial advance in Glacier Bay.
1880 - The North West Trading Company built the first store in Hoonah.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Hoonah’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewHoohina [i.e. Hoonah], S.E. Alaska, 1884: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Hoonah
See all 1 →Hoonah, decade by decade
1950s
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Hoohina [i.e. Hoonah], S.E. Alaska (1884) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.