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Seward is a city with an area of 55.8 km˛ (21.5 mi˛) and a population of 2,830 people Search and find companies, telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses in the Business Directory Seward Seward is a city located in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska. It was named after William H. Seward, early member of the United States Republican Party, United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln. As Secretary of State, he fought for the U.S. purchase of Alaska which he finally negotiated to acquire from Russia for $7,200,000 on March 30, 1867. This translated into approximately 2.5 cents per acre ($6.18/km²) for 586,400 square miles (1,519,000 km²) of territory, three times the size of Texas. The purchase of this frontier land ( Seward s Icebox ) was mocked as Seward s Folly and Andrew Johnson s polar bear garden .