Tagged: Alaska Commercial Company

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...

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...

Northern Commercial Company helped city of Eagle survive

If you have an eye for detail the front door is a give-away. Otherwise, glancing at Eagle’s old Northern Commercial Company (NC Co.) store, shown in the drawing, you might be deceived into thinking...

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...