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15 miles (24 km) N of Haines.
Transport map E4. * 850.
n Broadway, between 2nd & 3rd
Aves, 983-2854. _ Soapy Smith’s
Wake (Jul 8). ∑ skagway.com
White Pass and Yukon Route Rail-
road: 231 2nd Ave. Tel 983-2217,
(800) 343-7373. ∑ wpyr.com
Transport
Corrington Museum k from Juneau and Haines.
Built in 1975, the Corrington Building houses an ivory gift shop and £ from Fraser and Bennett Lake,
displays Native basketry, a mammoth tusk, and a collection of walrus BC (Canada). @ from Fraser, BC
ivory scrimshaw. (Canada). g from Haines and
Juneau.
Eagle’s Hall, built in 1898, Nome Saloon, a Gold
hosts the Days of ’98 show, Rush drinking hall, now
re-creating the Frank Reid- houses a jewelry shop.
Soapy Smith shootout.
Library
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Saloon U.S.
Post Office
Chilkoot Trail
Center
B R O A D W A Y B R O A D W A Y
. Skagway Museum
The 1899 faux-Gothic McCabe
College first functioned as a private
school, then the Federal Courthouse,
Mollie Walsh jail, and Town Hall. It now houses the
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5 T H A V E N U E
Railroad
Station Park town museum, with displays on the
Gold Rush, local Tlingit culture, and
S P R I N G S T R E E T
the infamous Soapy Smith.
Moore
House
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Soapy Smith
Born Jefferson Randolph Smith
in Georgia in 1860, Soapy earned
his nickname after a swindle
involving soap. In 1896, he arrived
in Skagway, opened a saloon, and
set himself up as an underworld
boss and local philanthropist. His
most notorious scams included a
phony freight company and a fake
Moore Cabin telegraph office that would “wire”
Built in 1888 by Captain Moore, money across non-existent wires.
the town’s founder, this is In 1898, this uncrowned “king” of
Skagway’s oldest building. Skagway was killed after a shootout Historic image of Soapy Smith at the
Its walls are papered with with city surveyor Frank Reid. bar of his saloon
newspapers from the late 1800s.

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