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Area map for Seward, AK
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| The Seward Museum |
| 336 Third Avenue. The museum houses impressive, unique and interesting displays about Seward’s history and the people, places and things shaping the town and area. |
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| Waterfall |
| From the corner of Third and Railway, looking toward Bear Mountain, Seward’s waterfall is readily visible, one block west. Actually the outfall from the Lowell Canyon Diversion Tunnel, the waterfall presents many different faces from time to time – clear water with misty rainbows; muddy, flood-debris-filled torrents; and in winter, beautiful ices sculptures. |
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| Waterfront Area |
| The area along the waterfront is the former location of warehouses, docks and railroad tracks that were destroyed by the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and tsunamis. This is now the location of the Alaska SeaLife Center, completed in 1998. The facility conducts research and rehabilitation of marine mammals, seabirds, fish and the marine environment and offers public education through programs and displays. It was built mainly with settlement money resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill |
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| Brown & Hawkins |
| 205-209 Fourth Avenue. The Brown & Hawkins Store is the oldest continually operated business in Seward, and the oldest store in Alaska under the same ownership. Now on the National Register of Historic places, dating back to 1904, shortly after Seward was founded. They housed a general store, a clothing store and the Seward Club Gambling Hall. The buildings have been renovated to closely match their original appearance. T.W. Hawkins was among the original settlers of Seward; arriving with the first landing party on August 28, 1903. He and Charles E. Brown had begun a store in Valdez in 1900. Hawkins operated the Seward store until his son, James Hawkins, took over and then passed it on to the Hawkins’ daughter, Virginia, who died in 2002. Virginia’s son and daughter-in-law, Hugh and Iris Darling, operate the business now. A complete history of the founders is on display in the store, along with an old brass cash register and the “old bank vault.” |
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