Histories of Anchorage: From a fierce local advocate to the overblown hero of the serum run, here is how some popular local parks were named
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In 1959, it was named Brown’s Point Park after longtime residents Jack and Nellie Brown. The Browns married in Cordova in 1912 and quickly relocated to the mouth of Ship Creek. The following year, they built a cabin on the creek flats. When the Alaska Engineering Commission arrived to construct the Alaska Railroad in 1915, the Browns lost their prime location along the creek but soon claimed a homestead on Green Lake north of town.
As the memorial notes, Hall “trod this path many times with dog Pal at his side.” A sidewalk was installed with the embedded footprints of a man and dog. Today, you can follow those steps just as Stu and Pal did so many times before. Arcand moved to Anchorage in 1947 and married in 1953. That year, her husband, George, urged her to advocate for a park near their homestead. He would often remind her to save a park, but the time never seemed right. A park never seemed like a pressing issue until she saw an article about nearby land to be auctioned off. That land, which became Ruth Arcand Park, was then state land known as Section 16 and intended for private development.
The land for Tikishla Park, north of Chester Creek in Airport Heights, was purchased as a partnership between area residents and the city in the 1970s. Development began in 1983, and the first playground was dedicated in 1985. “Tikishla” is a mangled version of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena’ina “ghedishla,” meaning a black bear.
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