Tagged: Delta junction

Old Presbyterian chapel at Delta Junction, built in 1952. It was one of three chapels built to support the Rev. Bert Bingle's Alaska Highway ministry

The Rev. Bert Bingle’s 600 mile-long Alaska Highway parish

Bert Bingle was a Presbyterian minister who came to Cordova in 1928 to serve the people along the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, and then moved to Palmer in 1935 to start a church...

Fairbanks – 12-27-2021 – Out my back door after the storm

We had a major storm roll through Interior Alaska over the weekend – almost 2′ of snow, followed by temperatures near 40 degrees F above 0, rain and wind. Everything is now coated with...

Rika’s Roadhouse still important fixture along Richardson Highway

Rika’s Roadhouse in later winter 2011 Big Delta—so named because of its location at the confluence of the Delta and Tanana Rivers, and to differentiate it from Delta Telegraph Station on the nearby Little...

Sullivan Roadhouse finds rebuilt life in Delta Junction

John and Florence Sullivan (veterans of the Klondike, Nome and Fairbanks gold rushes) built a sod-roofed log roadhouse during the winter of 1905-06 midway along the 55-mile-long Donnelly-Washburn Cut-off. The cut-off was a Valdez-Fairbanks...

Relics of Alaska Highway construction rest in Delta Junction

  Early 1940s Osgood 200 face shovel at Delta Junction Some people think that the Alaska Highway ends in Fairbanks. However, most residents of Delta Junction will tell you their hometown is the northern...