Thursday, October 29, 2009

Strawberry Point

I googled for pictures of Gus and for some reason that palm tree pix came up. So I posted it last week as a joke. Back to reality: Originally the area was called "Strawberry Point" because of the abundance of wild strawberries that grow there. The city seal is a strawberry. I actually like the name Strawberry Point better than the present name, which was assigned because of an error interpreting an early map.

Trivia: The State of Alaska is as large as the combined area of all the States east of the Mississippi River.

2 comments:

april said...

did escrow close?
strawberries sounds so good right about now...it'll be fun to pick and freeze them.

Mel (AKA Dad, Papa Mel, Grampa) said...

April: We closed escrow in late October on schedule. I don't have the recorded documents yet but the agent says the place is ours.