Tagged: gold mining history

Hope is only surviving gold camp from Upper Kenai Peninsula gold rush

Downtown Hope in 2014 According to the 1915 U.S.G.S. report, Geology and Mineral Resources of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, the only recorded instances of Russian gold exploration in Alaska occurred between 1848 and 1851, when...

The ebb and flow of mining at Kantishna is reflected in Eldorado Creek’s history

The Comstock Cabin on Eldorado Creek in 1994. This cabin was built  in the mid 1950s. Kantishna’s Eldorado Creek, as opposed to the 26 other Eldorado Creeks listed in the “Dictionary of Alaska Place...

The changing fortune of Old Chatanika, Alaska

Old Chatanika cabin in 1994 In 1902 Felix Pedro washed gold out of Cleary Creek about 25 miles northeast of Fairbanks. Relatively few miners worked the creeks near Fairbanks in 1902, and it wasn’t...

“Gold, Steel & Ice” book documents remarkable mining machines used in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

I just received a fascinating book published this year by the U.S. Department of the Interior. The book is Gold, Steel & Ice, A History of Mining Machines in Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve....

Eureka Lodge has served Glenn Highway travelers since road’s inception

  The original cabin at Eureka Lodge in 2013 The Glenn Highway, which stretches from Anchorage 179 miles northeast to the Richardson Highway, should perhaps have been named the Castner Highway. After all, Lt....

Fairbanks Creek Camp was one of F.E. Company’s final ventures in Fairbanks area

North side of blacksmith shop at Fairbanks Creek Camp in early spring of 1994 Gold Dredge No. 2, located about 20 miles northeast of Fairbanks at Fairbanks Creek, was one of Fairbanks Exploration Company’s...