Tagged: Slaterville

Slaterville: from hayfields to housing developments

The development of the Slaterville area, on the north side of the Chena River across from downtown Fairbanks, started soon after the city was established. It is a residential area now but began as...

Minnie Street Bridge and Northside Grocery and Gas brought Slaterville into the modern age during 1950s

Northside Grocery as it looked in 1969 After 1939, when construction began at Ladd Field, and well into the 1950s, Fairbanks experienced a population explosion. Terrence Cole’s report, Historic Resources of the Minnie Street...

Minnie Slater’s grave at Birch Hill Cemetery – Fairbanks, Alaska

  The white picket fence in this photograph, located on the lower slope of Birch Hill Cemetery just north of Fairbanks, encloses the grave of Minnie Starr Slater. She was married to Charles Slater,...