 |  | | Alaska Central Railway Company - Alaska 1903 | Beautiful certificate from the Alaska Central Railway Company issued in 1903. This historic document was printed by Yerkes Printing Company and has an ornate border around it with an underprint of an Alaska Map. This item has the signatures of the Company's President and Secretary and is over 105 years old.
The city of Seward was founded in 1903 by Alaska Central Railway as the ocean terminus for its proposed railroad to the interior. It was named in honor of William H. Seward, the secretary of state who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. Alaska Central Railway was Alaska's built the first railroad and it started in Seward and extended 50 miles north.
The Alaska Central went bankrupt and its successor the Alaska Northern Railway was purchased by the federal goverment in 1915. It became part of the Alaska Railroad, which the government was building from Seward to Fairbanks.
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