McAlmond Point

McAlmond Point (52˚49'00" 132˚04'00" W side of Newcombe Inlet, Tasu Sd, W side of Moresby I, QCI). Capt Elijah H McAlmond (1827–1913), from Belfast, Maine, came to the W coast of N America about 1850 and worked on sailing vessels out of San Francisco. He settled at Dungeness, Washington, and left the sea for a period, then built the schooner Rebecca in 1861 and operated it in Puget Sd and off Alaska until 1865. It was McAlmond and the Rebecca that first brought mining engineer Francis Poole...

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