Fun Facts:

1) The first police in Haines were the U.S. Marshall’s Service.

2) The only police officer ever killed in Haines was a U.S. Marshall killed when he responded to a report of a drunk man with a rifle in the Barracks building at Fort Seward shooting indiscriminately. When the Marshall approached the building calling the suspect by name, he was shot and killed.

2) The Dalton Trail - named after and operated by the notorious outlaw, Jack Dalton - begins in Haines and winds it’s way into the Yukon gold fields. This trail was used to access the gold fields of the interior nearly as much as the better known Klondike trail in Skagway.

3) Haines has the largest concentration of Bald Eagles in the world. Sometimes numbering as many as 3,000. Each year from October to early December they congregate in the Chilkat river just North of Haines where they fish for a late run of Chum Salmon that are accessible because the water in that area is heated by natural springs and never freezes.

4) Built in 1904, Ft. Seward, located in Haines, was the first U.S. military instillation in Alaska .

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