Minnie Slater’s grave at Birch Hill Cemetery Antone “Tony” Zimmerman was a well-known miner in early Fairbanks. He is perhaps best-known, however, for developing and donating Birch Hill Cemetery to the Fairbanks community in...
Sourdough Creek flows south out of the White Mountains and empties into the Chatanika River at about 66 Mile Steese Highway. Several miles upstream, along Sourdough Creek Road, lies the old Zimmerman/Carlson mining camp....
On Monday of this week we drove to Sourdough Creek, about 70 miles up the Steese Highway. We have friends whose family owns an old mining camp up there. Borough land records say the...
