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Gustavus, AK - History
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Welcome to the Gustavus Home page. The Gustavus Home page provides as much information as possible on Gustavus. Knowing Gustavus’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Gustavus’s Home page, you will also find Gustavus’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Gustavus has a population of 493. 41.4% of Gustavus’s inhabitants are Male, and 58.6 are female. 56.3% of Gustavus is married and 86.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $239,766, and the average rent is $1,111. Household median income in Gustavus is $64,792, and the individual median income is $34,205. Gustavus’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.3%), Native(6.1%), Multiple(3.7%), Hispanic(1.4%).
Gustavus, formerly known as "Strawberry Point", lies on the outwash plain created by the glaciers that once filled Glacier Bay. Two hundred years ago, it was primarily a single large "beach". The native Tlingit people and others used the area for fishing, berry picking, and other similar uses. The town itself is less than one hundred years old.
The first settlers arrived in 1914, but left shortly afterward. The first permanent homestead was established in 1917, when Abraham Lincoln Parker moved his family to Strawberry Point. Many Gustavus residents are descendants and relatives of the original Parker homesteaders. In 1925 the name became "Gustavus", when the U.S.
Post Office required a change for its new post office, although locals continued calling it "Strawberry Point" long afterwards. The new name came from Point Gustavus at the mouth of Glacier Bay. In 1793 George Vancouver named Point Adolphus (at the northern tip of Chichagof Island, and today a well-known humpback whale feeding area) after Adolphus Frederick, seventh son of King George III.
In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a coastal survey, saw "Adolphus" on the map and assumed it was for Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus. The point across Icy Strait from Point Adolphus at the mouth of Glacier Bay was not named on the map, so Dall called it "Gustavus". Another possibility is that Dall named Gustavus for Gustavus C.
Hanus, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who had extensive experience throughout southeast Alaska, and both Dall and Hanus served with the Coast Survey in Alaska. Hanus laid out the first streets in Juneau and helped quell the trouble in Klukwan in 1881. There is still a large beach at Gustavus, with many strawberries.
The city is surrounded on three sides by Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, and on the fourth side by water. The area is a temperate rain forest; spruce and hemlock trees reach heights of 60 metres (200 ft), and alders, balsam poplar, fern, mosses, fireweed, lupine, and other plants are also common.
Gustavus's coastal location gives it a relatively mild winter. Summer temperatures range from 11 to 17 °C (52 to 63 °F); winter temperatures from −3 to 4 °C (27 to 39 °F).
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