Oil explorers drilled Alaska's first oil well in 1896 on the shores of Cook Inlet, southwest of present-day Anchorage. They found modest amounts of oil, insufficient to justify development. Six years later, however, a well drilled at Katalla on the Gulf of Alaska struck oil. More wells were drilled at Katalla and eventually a refinery was built.
When was Fairbanks,Alaska discovered
Alaska wasn't invented, it was discovered.
gold was found in Alaska
Captain James Cook
Alaska was discovered
Gold was discovered.
Yes, he was a Danish exlorer who discovered and named Alaska and the Bering Sea.
Vitus Bering
Gold had been discovered.
who founded denali national park
Kevin Rudd an Elvis while they skateboarded in alaska!
Vitus Bering discovered Alaska, however, US Secretary Seward purchased Alaska under president Lincoln, often called Seward's Folly Alaska was purchased for a penny an acre.