Old Hyder Alaska and Hyder Alaska today

At the very bottom of this post of the pictures, that area can be covered in water when the tide comes in and you don't see land you just see the water and smell the ocean.

(------Hyder to the present day and since 1986

(----Hyder BC in 1920 (note that I said BC and it was not a state)

(----- Hyder Alaska in 1930

The pictures at the bottom of this long blog is what Old Hyder Looks like now. The info was copied and pasted from the website "http://www.stewart-hyder.com/hyder.html".

The pictures of the posts in the water is where you would now crosses the border from Stewart BC into what is now today Hyder Alaska. The black and white photos of buildings is Old Hyder BC on water, and the coloured picture of Hyder is what it looks like now.

" HISTORY OF HYDER, ALASKA
Old Hyder, AK (1930s)

Nass River Indians called the head of Portland Canal "Skam-A-Kounst," meaning "safe place," referring to the site as a retreat from the harassment of the coastal Haidas.
The Nass used this area as a seasonal berry-picking and bird-hunting site. In 1896, Capt. D.D. Gillard of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers explored Portland Canal. Gold and silver lodes were discovered in this area in the late 1898, mainly on the Canadian side in the upper Salmon River basin.

The Stewart brothers arrived in 1902. Hyder was originally called Portland City, and the name was changed in 1914 after Frederick Hyder, a Canadian mining engineer predicted a bright future for the area. Hyder was the only practical point of access to the silver mining properties in Canada, and the community became the ocean port, supply point, and post office for miners by 1917. Hyder's boom years occurred between 1920 and 1930, when the Riverside Mine on US territory extracted gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, and tungsten. The mine operated from 1924 until 1950. In 1948, the townsite, built on pilings, was destroyed by fire.
Hyder, BC (1920s)

History has it that there was a well worn trail over the mountain from the Alaska side known as "Smugglers Trail". Many Alaskans would just walk over to Hyder, BC, drink their fill and return home. At one time, Hyder, BC boasted a row of residences, two hotels, two beer parlors, a taxi stand and a Canadian Customs two storey building, all set up on pilings. By the last 1940s only a few of the buildings remained. Hyder, BC was slowly being reduced to mere pilings.
By 1956, all major mining had closed except for the Granduc Copper Mine in Canada, which operated until 1984. Westmin Resources Ltd. operated a gold and silver mine which is currently in shut down mode."