Another Street Scene

Anchorage

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July 9th 2006
About 30 miles before we reached Anchorage things began to change rapidly. Instead of country roads and trading posts we began to see expressways, shopping centers and subdivisions. Anchorage is a modern city of about 300,000 people and looks less like the last frontier and more like a city in the lower 48. We heard the joke here is that Anchorage is a great place to live -- you are in a modern ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more