Jualpa Camp give glimpse of Alaska-Juneau Mine’s glory days
The buildings shown in the drawing, part of Jualpa Mine Camp, are in Last Chance Basin, located along Gold Creek a mile above Juneau. They are a remnant of the Alaska Juneau Mine (AJ),...
Eager Beaver Breakfast Take-out – Chena River – 7 AM – 5-16-2020
I went out for a walk this morning along the Chena River and saw this beaver taking breakfast home. The beaver’s lodge is just upstream from where I took the photo.
House in Cordova is one of the few reminders of legendary Alaska pioneer, Jack Dalton
Jack Dalton, perhaps best-known for opening Southeast Alaska’s Dalton Trail in 1894-95, was a wanderer. During his 30-plus years in Alaska, his meanderings covered large swaths of Southeast and Southcentral Alaska. Dalton came to...
Tall caches were once common in Alaska
Tall cache that used to stand at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks In modern Alaska, elevated storage caches (sometimes called fish or bear caches) typically consist of small rustic log cabins built atop four canted...
World War II-era telephone line still in use in Upper Tanana Valley
A portion of the Alaska Military Telephone Line along the Alaska Highway near the Canadian border The Alaska Highway, built in 1942, was not the only World War II-era construction project linking Alaska with...
Cordova is home to one of the oldest federal buildings in Alaska
Cordova’s old Post Office and Courthouse building as it looked in 2019 A 196-mile-long mining railroad, the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, once connected the port of Cordova in Prince William Sound with the...
Anchorage’s Holy Family Cathedral grew with the city
Holy Family Cathedral in 2014 In early 1915, anticipating construction of the Alaska Railroad, hundreds of job seekers hastily erected a boomtown along Ship Creek in Upper Cook Inlet. Many in the camp...
Fairbanks Aeromedical Lab was a Cold War program to study the Arctic
The Arctic Aeromedical Lab building in Fairbanks, now the Fairbanks offices for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. Alaska has been a U.S. possession since 1867. However,...
Potter Section House near Anchorage offers glimpse into history of Alaska Railroad
Potter Section House as it looked in winter 2018-2019 Potter Section House is at Mile 115.3, Seward Highway, near the mouth of Turnagain Arm and just south of Potter Marsh. Sitting adjacent to...
Alaska Highway ended the isolation of Scottie Creek area
Fuller Thompson cabin at Scottie Creek in 2019. Thompson was a big-game guide and he and his wife were among the first homesteaders in the Scottie Creek area. Scottie Creek crosses the Alaska Highway...
