Northern Commercial Company store in Manley Hot Springs Manley Hot Springs (usually just called Manley) is located west of Fairbanks, about 75 miles as the raven flies. But if you want to travel...
When I wrote my post about construction of the Alaska Highway I mentioned the “Northern Staging Route,” the series of airfields through which military aircraft were ferried from the U.S. to the Soviet...
Nestled at the base of tundra-covered mountains in Kantishna sits the small log cabin pictured in the accompanying drawing. Built by Johnny Busia (pronounced boo-shay)in the early 1900s, the cabin, with its moose...
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...
FE Company machine shop as it looked in the early 1990s When you are in the resource development industry, the infrastructure to support your business needs to be in place before your operations begin....
Traveling through the small town of Nenana, about 60 miles south of Fairbanks, you might get the impression that it is a relatively new community—the fortuitous juncture of the Alaska Railroad, Parks Highway...
Leonhard Seppala’s cabin as it looked in the 1990s Most people probably aren’t aware that Leonhard (Sepp) Seppala, who achieved fame during the 1925 diphtheria serum run to Nome and popularized the use of...
The University of Alaska (established in 1915 as the Alaska College of Agriculture and School of Mines) sits on a ridge with a commanding view of the Tanana and Chena River flats. People...
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....
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...
