Category: Circle

Circle – Historic settlement on the bank of the Yukon River, approximately 165 miles northeast of Fairbanks at end of Steese Highway

How wireless telegraphy helped modernize Circle

How wireless telegraphy helped modernize Circle

The Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS) was an approximately 1,550-mile-long Alaska communications system built between 1900 and 1904. It linked a string of U.S. Army posts: Fort Davis in Nome, Fort St....

Fairbanks-Circle Trail gradually morphed into Steese Highway

Adams “Leaning Wheel” grader used on Steese Highway, now at Circle Distirct Museum in Central Ever since the 1892 discovery of gold along a Yukon River tributary called Birch Creek, prospectors have been tramping...

Circle’s Rasmussen House a freighting pioneer’s legacy

Nels Rasmussen house in Circle Circle City , with a pre-1900 population of about 800 people, saw its population drop to a few hundred after the turn of the century. The town was established...

Ups and downs of Circle City, the “Paris of the North”

Old Circle City cabin in the spring of 2014 Circle is a small, predominantly Athabascan community at the end of the Steese Highway 160 miles northeast of Fairbanks. Located on the Yukon River’s south...