Tagged: Alaska Commercial Company

Talkeetna and the Alaska Commercial Company’s Susitna-Valdez Creek freighting gamble

  Old freighter’s cabin at Talkeetna in 2005 Gold was discovered at Valdez Creek (near the headwaters of the Susitna River) in 1903. The first pack-horse and winter sled routes that supplied the mining...

N.C. Company warehouse in Fairbanks–Gone in the name of progress

Some people say there are two seasons in Fairbanks–Winter and Construction. We are now entering construction season, and work is commencing on improvements to Illinois Avenue and the approach to the new Barnette Street...