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- Department_of_Alaska abstract "The Department of Alaska was the designation for the government of Alaska from its purchase by the United States of America in 1867 until its organization as the District of Alaska in 1884. During the department era, Alaska was variously under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army (until 1877), the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury (from 1877 until 1879) and the U.S. Navy (from 1879 until 1884). The area later became the District of Alaska, then the Territory of Alaska, then the State of Alaska.At the instigation of U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, the United States Senate approved the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 on April 9, 1867, and the United States flag was raised on October 18 of that same year (now called Alaska Day). Coincident with the ownership change, the de facto International Date Line was moved westward, and Alaska changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, for residents, Friday, October 6, 1867 was followed by Friday, October 18, 1867; two Fridays in a row because of the date line shift.On the morning of October 18, 1867, USS Ossipee arrived at Sitka with Russian Commissioner Captain Alexis Pestchouroff and American Commissioner General Lovell Rousseau on board. That afternoon, 250 American soldiers, 80 Russian soldiers, Russian-American Company Chief Manager Prince Maksutov and his wife, and a group of locals assembled at the flagstaff in front of the governor's residence (on what has come to be known as \"Baranof (Baronov) Castle Hill\" to witness the flag of Russia being lowered and the U.S. flag being raised in its place.A dual cannon salute was fired for each flag, and each Commissioner gave a short speech. Perhaps misunderstanding the directions, the Russian soldier bringing his country's flag down tore it loose, then dropped it. The banner drifted down and was caught on a portion of the upraised bayonets of the Russian garrison. Princess Salma is said to have fainted at the sight.Legend has it that the first American administrator of Alaska was Polish immigrant Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski. However, the Anchorage Daily News was unable to find any conclusive information to support or disprove this claim. Public opinion in the United States was generally positive, though some criticized the purchase as \"Seward's Folly\" or \"Seward's Icebox\". However, the resources of Alaska would soon show that this was a wise buy. Alaska celebrates the purchase each year on the last Monday of March, which is known as Seward's Day.When the United States had first bought Alaska, vast regions of the area still remained unexplored. In 1865, Western Union decided to lay a telegraph line across Alaska to Bering Strait where it would connect with an Asian line. Robert Kennicott, part of a Western Union surveying effort, had led his crew to Nulato on the banks of the Yukon. He died the following year and William Healey Dall took charge of scientific affairs. The Western Union expedition conducted the first scientific studies of the region and produced the first map of the entire Yukon River. That same year, 1866, workers finally succeeded in laying an Atlantic undersea telegraph cable, and the Alaskan overland project was abandoned. Dall returned to Alaska many times, recording and naming geological features.The Alaska Commercial Company also contributed to the growing exploration of Alaska in the last decades of the 1800s, building trading posts along the interior's many rivers. Small parties of trappers and traders entered the interior, and, though the federal government provided little money to the region, army officers would occasionally explore on their own. In a four-month journey, Lt. Frederick Schwatka and his party rafted the Yukon from Lake Lindeman in Canada to Saint Michael near the river's mouth on the Bering Sea. In 1885, Lt. Henry T. Allen and four others left the Gulf of Alaska, followed the Copper River, crossed a mountain range, and traveled down the Tanana River to the Yukon, and portaged to the Kanuti and Koyukuk rivers. Allen went up the Koyukuk, then back down the Yukon, crossed over to Unalakeet on the coast, and then made his way to Saint Michael, exploring about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of Interior Alaska.".
- Department_of_Alaska capital Sitka,_Alaska.
- Department_of_Alaska governmentType Organized_incorporated_territories_of_the_United_States.
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- Department_of_Alaska wikiPageWikiLinkText "Alaska".
- Department_of_Alaska wikiPageWikiLinkText "Department of Alaska".
- Department_of_Alaska wikiPageWikiLinkText "Military Department of Alaska".
- Department_of_Alaska wikiPageWikiLinkText "United States (historical, for Alaska)".
- Department_of_Alaska capital Sitka,_Alaska.
- Department_of_Alaska commonName "Alaska".
- Department_of_Alaska conventionalLongName "Department of Alaska".
- Department_of_Alaska dateEnd "--05-17".
- Department_of_Alaska dateStart "--10-18".
- Department_of_Alaska eventEnd District_of_Alaska.
- Department_of_Alaska eventStart Russian_America.
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- Department_of_Alaska leader "Brevet Maj. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis".
- Department_of_Alaska leader "Brevet Major George B. Rodney".
- Department_of_Alaska leader "Lt. Cmdr. Henry E. Nichols".
- Department_of_Alaska nation "the United States".
- Department_of_Alaska p "Russian America".
- Department_of_Alaska s "District of Alaska".
- Department_of_Alaska subdivision "* Administered by U.S. Army * Administered by U.S. Treasury * Administered by U.S. Navy * Organized incorporated territory".
- Department_of_Alaska symbol "Seal of Alaska".
- Department_of_Alaska symbolType "Seal".
- Department_of_Alaska titleLeader List_of_Governors_of_Alaska.
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- Department_of_Alaska yearEnd "1884".
- Department_of_Alaska yearLeader "1868".
- Department_of_Alaska yearLeader "1874".