Ketchikan
Ketchikan dates back to 1883, and became European Alaska's first European city when a man by the name of Snow opened a salmon saltery. Later two other men named Mike Martin and George Clark opened a salmon cannery along the banks of Ketchikan creek. The cannery and saltery later joined together and made a general store. Two years later the fishing trade flourished and ketchican officially became a city with a population of 800. Ketchikan was also a very important mining and lumbering town and even when those industries started to decline the fishing and canning kept the town alive.