Tagged: Presbyterian Church

The growth and decline of Eagle’s historic churches

The first Christian missionaries in Eastern Interior Alaska did not follow the miners who began arriving toward the end of the 1800s. Rather, missionaries preceded the miners, following instead Hudson’s Bay Company as it...

Bingle Memorial Camp namesake was indefatigable worker

Bingle camp lodge as it looked in 2001 Bingle Memorial Camp is set on a picturesque 66 acre heavily-wooded parcel along the south shore of Harding Lake, about 47 miles southeast of Fairbanks. It...

Presbyterian church in Fairbanks, Alaska – 1910

This drawing shows the Presbyterian church in Fairbanks as it looked in 1910. The Presbyterians were one of the first denominations to establish churches in the fledgling town, building a small wood-frame sanctuary at...