Story Time w/ Aunt Phil: Naming Anchorage

How did Anchorage get its name?
While some Alaska towns were named after people who made a mark in the northland –- like Seward, Juneau and Palmer –- Anchorage didn’t evolve as a result of a person or a resource. It came to be due to the federal government’s need to get resources from Alaska’s interior to ships that could carry those valuable items south.
As late as 1913, there was no town at the head of Cook Inlet. There was only a spot called Ship Creek, where sma