Seward's History is tied closely with what is today called the Alaska Railroad.

Seward started out as a railroad or company town, when two brothers formed a company to build a railroad north. The company was called the Alaska Centeral Railroad, and it the vision and hard work of these pioneers that managed to build a railroad in some of the wildest country in America. 

The Chugach people are the people that the early Russians and Americans found living in Alaska when they arrived. The Native tradition is that the people the Chugach came from somewhere north of Kodiak Island. Read about the Native History of the Chugach people who were the first people here. 

Early Alaskans make there living on the seas, some trading others fishing. That tradition continues today, Seward has a large fishing fleet and a cannery. The Fishing History of Seward tell the story of those who made their living on the seas fishing. 

Alaskan Recipes gives you a taste of eating Alaskan style food. Something you can make at home for your family. 

Mount Marathon sit behind the town of Seward, as winter comes and goes, it act as a giant thermometer. As snow start at the top and move down the mountain you can gauge where the season is. In spring as the snow move up the mountain you can see summers promise coming. It on this mountain that a bet was waged as to whether or not one man could climb up and down in
under an hour. So by tradition started the Mount Marthon Race, run each year on the Fourth of July. Forget the New York Marthon, this run is all up hill and then down the same mountain. Watch it or if your  the runing type you might want to apply to run, only a limit number can run each year. Not a race for the untrained but fun to cheer on the runner from the finish line in
downtown Seward.