'TELEPHONE HILL - City and Borough of Juneau

TELEPHONE HILL
METHODOLOGY
Heritage Foundation Triba Archives, provided a wealth of resource
information on Native Alaskan' land and water use in the Juneau area.
The collection also documented early Euro-American contact and
explorations in southeast Alaska.
(5) Maps andpl ats , located in the City and Borough of Juneau Planning and
Engineering Departments, and Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (1904, 1914,
1927), located in the Alaska Historical Library, were consulted.
(6) Literature research of all articles and book and manuscript~ollections
was conducted at the Alaska State Library, Alaska Historical Library
and Juneau Memorial Library.
(7) Mi'crofilm of early-Alaskan newspapers and recorded mining claims were
reviewed.
(8) Historical Architect Janet Matheson of Fairbanks reviewed structure
photographs and architectural descriptions. Earlier Matheson had
performed historic structures surveys in the City of Fairbanks, City
and Borough of Ketchikan, Fairbanks North Star Borough, and the City of
Haines.
(9) A data base was created on each structure and history of ownership
documented. Information through interviews about the people who had
either constructed or been associated with the structure during its
history was included.
(10) The history of the Telephone Hill site was developed using all of the
above sources.
(11) The project survey team compiled and synthesized the data. An artist
provided drawings of Telephone Hill structures and scenes to add to the
site's documentation.
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