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| Keywords: View of Loring from the water, ca 1912 (THWAITES 342).jpeg check categories 27 October 2016 1 Photograph Creator John E Thwaites Caption on image Loring Alaska PH Coll 247 814<br/>Naha Bay indents the west coastline of Revillagigedo Island A Tlingit name meaning 'land of the distant lakes' Naha Bay is the final outlet for a chain for six lakes ending with Roosevelt Lagoon This lake system produced a run of sockeye salmon which supplied a saltery started in 1883 by The Alaska Salmon Packing and Fur Company Most of the work was done in a long warehouse near the outlet of Roosevelt Lagoon The place was called Loring and the name became official in 1885 when a post office opened This was the only post office in southern Southeast Alaska until Ketchikan started to grow Loring was the first stop for steamers from Portland or the Puget Sound area Then in 1888 a cannery was built further out the bay at the present site of Loring All summer long the place was alive with activity from the cannery and sailing ships from San Francisco with supplies Eventually steamers delivered supplies and carried canned salmon back to West Coast ports The cannery grew and by 1897 it put up the largest pack of any Alaska cannery A modern cannery was built in 1901 yet runs started declining in 1913 It operated until about 1930 when the equipment was removed and the cannery dismantled Today only a handful of families maintain residence in the remote and private setting of Loring Subjects LCSH Loring Alaska ; Villages--Alaska--Loring; Naha Bay Alaska depicted place United States--Alaska--Loring ca 1912 Institution University of Washington UWASH-THWAITES-source accession number thwaites 342 PD-old-auto-1923 1940 Information field Order Number THW356 Images from the John E Thwaites Photographs of Alaska Collection to check Villages | ||||
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