Did alaska change its capital. Once upon a time the people of alaska voted to move the state capital out of the backwater southeast community of juneau. 3 4 the municipality unified on july 1 1970 when the city of juneau merged with the city of douglas and the surrounding greater juneau borough to form the current. After alaska gained statehood the building served as the home for the alaska legislature.
The first was in 1960 when voters rejected the first effort to move the capital to the. It became the only state capital not accessible by road. Its the only state capital which borders a foreign country.
By a vote of 46659 to 35683 a 1974 voter initiative relocating and constructing a new capital called for the construction of the new capital at one of two or three sites nominated by a selection committee appointed by the governorconstruction must allow. But juneau was not the capital of the last frontier when alaska became part of the united states in 1867. Since alaska became a state in 1959 there have been 10 ballot initiatives involving a capital move.
Juneau prospered and was established as alaskas capital in 1906 when the government was transferred from sitka. Juneau became the capital of the 49th state on jan. Sitka was the center of government for russia ame.