Biography - Richard Dixon

Colonel Richard Dixon, the street name first appeared in the records in 1888. Dixon, who seems to have been a colonel by courtesy , was a pioneer miner in California, the Cariboo, and Cassiar and arrived at Juneau from Wrangell in a dugout canoe early in 1881. The first miners' meeting in the new camp, on February 9, 1881, elected him Recorder for the Jarris Mining District and he was re-elected each year thereafter until the duties were taken over by the U.S. Commissioner in 1884. Dixon had mining property in Silver Bow Basin and was one of the earliest mineral locators on Sheep Creek. He died at Juneau on May 17, 1892.

Dixon Street - running from First Street to Ninth Street and traversing the length of Court House Hill. Apparently named for Colonel Richard Dixon.

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