Day trip up the Steese Highway to Nome Creek- 5-28-2014
Yesterday I took a day trip up to Nome Creek to check out the cultural resources there. The photo above is of the Nome Creek Valley from the top of the ridge between Nome...
Tagged: Davidson Ditch
Ambitious Davidson Ditch brought water to Fairbanks dredges
Davidson Ditch inverted siphon across U.S. Creek “Ditch” is such a mundane word and certainly doesn’t accurately describe the Davidson Ditch, the 90-mile long system of open earthwork canals, steel pipe and tunnel that...
Bucyrus steam shovel at Pioneer Park, Fairbanks, Alaska
This is a photo of the old steam shovel at Pioneer Park here in Fairbanks. It was used in the 1920s to build the Davidson Ditch, a 90-mile long aqueduct that brought water from...
