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Native villages, railroad camps, and timber towns - the diversity of
Alaska's communities, and the people who made them grow - are threads
in the tapestry of life in the North. All over the state, communities
young and old, Native and non-Native, coastal and Interior, on or off
the road system—each can claim a distinctive personality.
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Every city, town, or village can claim a rich supply of oral and written stories from days gone by, whether it was a railroad boomtown, or founded by a swindler, or sprouted in a prime spot on the river.
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Russian Orthodox priests and monks were among the first Christian missionaries to arrive in Alaska in the 1700s.
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