Tagged: coal bunkers

Fairbanks history–going, going, gone? What’s different about these photos?

I love back yards. They show so much about the true character of the house’s residents. Both of these photos show the back yard of the house at 303 Illinois Street, here is Fairbanks....

Fairbanks coal bunkers were the last of their kind in Alaska

Coal bunkers as they looked in 1994 Fairbanks was never a coal-mining town, but coal did help Fairbanks recover from the lean times of the late 1910s and early 1920s. In 1910 about 11,000...