1. Ketchikan is a native Tlingit word meaning, " Thundering wings of an eagle" because the island looks like an eagles' shape
2. There are more black bears living on the island where Ketchikan is located than residents.
3. Ketchikan is home to the world's only tunnel that you can travel through, over, around and under!
4. Ketchikan's ball fields are very versatile and the fences can be moved to accomodate baseball, football and soccer. Due to the island's heavy rainfall, there is no grass on the fields- so yes, the boys do play football on gravel!
5. If you have eaten McDonald's ice cream prior to 1997, you have eaten part of the Tongass National Forest, which surrounds Ketchikan and is almost 17 million acres. Yes, they used to put high-grade wooden pulp in the ice cream to keep it smooth!
Jokes- Creek Street is the former red-light district in Ketchikan- What do you call a child born on Creek Street? A brothel sprout
What do you call it when an eagle perches on the top of the cross at a church? A bird of pray
Interesting Facts:
When the first stoplight was installed in the town, the first ever recorded accident was between two police officers.
During the time of prohibition, there were trap doors under many of the houses where bootleggers could canoe in to deliver the liquor and then canoe out again. This problem became so bad that there are now secret canals underneath the streets that the police could patrol.
The "bridge to nowhere" was supposed to be built from Revilla island (Ketchikan) to the neighboring Greneva island (where the airport is located) but never came to be.
The reason that Ketchikan's airport is considered international is because one day a Canadian plane needed to make an emergency landing there!
Ketchikan is home to stair streets- meaning they are simply steps that are legal streets. The city must maintain these during the winter and the longest is over 250 steps! Imagine carrying groceries up that!
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