Man in front of log cabin at Pioneer Ranch about twelve miles from Knik, Alaska, June 1914

Knik Anchorage was an early name for the Port of Anchorage at the mouth of Ship Creek. The present city of Anchorage is near this location. Caption below photo: Pioneer Ranch 12 Miles from "Knik." McPherson number: K20 PH Coll 495.1-5d Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James L...

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Summary:Knik Anchorage was an early name for the Port of Anchorage at the mouth of Ship Creek. The present city of Anchorage is near this location. Caption below photo: Pioneer Ranch 12 Miles from "Knik." McPherson number: K20 PH Coll 495.1-5d Photograph from album created in circa 1914 by James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, that documents the activities of the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey party (known as Party No. 11 of the Alaska Railroad Commission expedition). The A.E.C. had assigned McPherson to research the feasibility of building a branch railroad from Anchorage west to the mining districts on the Kuskokwim and Iditarod Rivers.