This photo from the Sealaska Heritage Institute collection by Edward deGroff shows what he called the “Indian City at Juneau” and was taken circa 1880. It shows Tlingit homes and canoes along a beach on the Gastineau Channel. (John Delgado collection, #5185567553350289250)
![This photo from the Sealaska Heritage Institute collection by Edward deGroff shows the "Indian City at Juneau" and was taken circa 1880. It shows Tlingit homes and canoes along a beach on the Gastineau Channel. (John Delgado collection, #5185567553350289250) Edward deGroff/Sealaaska Heritage Institute collections](http://jun-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/superphoto/11569804.jpg "This photo from the Sealaska Heritage Institute collection by Edward deGroff shows the "Indian City at Juneau" and was taken circa 1880. It shows Tlingit homes and canoes along a beach on the Gastineau Channel. (John Delgado collection, #5185567553350289250) Edward deGroff/Sealaaska Heritage Institute collections")
Edward deGroff/Sealaaska Heritage Institute collections
This photo from the Sealaska Heritage Institute collection by Edward deGroff shows the "Indian City at Juneau" and was taken circa 1880. It shows Tlingit homes and canoes along a beach on the Gastineau Channel. (John Delgado collection, #5185567553350289250)
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Check out that clear cut behind town. funny how those trees keep growing back into "Old Growth".
@AH HA
That hillside "behind town" is not covered in "old growth." It is covered in houses, one of them being the Governor's Mansion.
https://maps.google.com/?ll=58.302051,-134.415364&spn=0.002083,0.004898&...
ah ha
Go walk around in a 50 - 100 year old clear cut that hasn't had any thinning work. Let me know what you see.
Are we talking about the same
Are we talking about the same photo?
That village is on the modern Village Street. That is in downtown Juneau. The hillside above the village in the photo is Distin Avenue and W 8th Street. The waterline is roughly where Willoughby Avenue is now.
There is no second growth forest along this area. That is just fact.
And really, most people who live here know that. And most people who live here also know that the area around here was clear cut. And most people also know what old growth, second growth, and forest growing in glacial retreat is all about-you know because we actually live in the forest.
Willoughby area
I agree with El Boorba. The Fosbee Apartments would be nearly in the center of this picture. Also the photo date is 1886, not the year Juneau was founded (1880). The Village was built by Auke natives moving in to Juneau for work in the mining claims.
google streetview
here's a link to Village Street in google streetview.
https://maps.google.com/?ll=58.302088,-134.414281&spn=0.000011,0.009795&...