Tagged: Sullivan Roadhouse

Marge Gull painting of Sulivan’s Roadhouse

  This painting shows the Sullivan Roadhouse, which was about 278 miles from Valdez (86 miles from Fairbanks).  John and Florence Sullivan (veterans of the Klondike, Nome and Fairbanks gold rushes) built a sod-roofed...

Sign of the times – Mom and Pop roadhouses and lodges along Richardson Highway fading away

  Paxson Lodge in June 2013 – only the cafe is open We drove the Richardson highway as far south as Sourdough this past week, and I was saddened by the state of most...

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...