An Alaska museum and city, with help from donors including the Alaska Railroad, have won the auction for a 14-karat gold spike that was part of the railroad’s completion ceremony in 1923. The Anchorage Museum and city of Nenana will take turns displaying the spike,
The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, joined forces to bring home the Golden Spike, an iconic piece of railroad history.
The Anchorage Museum, along with the City of Nenana, bought a special railroad spike at a Christie’s auction for $200,000. The spike is made of 14-karat gold and is rich with history.
"I started to learn (and am still learning) more about the rich naming traditions “Denali” and other Alaska Native names for the mountain are part of, and came to understand that regardless of what some maps said for a few brief decades, the mountain’s true name had never changed."
The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie’s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600 ...
The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in Alaska after entities combined to win an action for the 14-karat gold spike Friday.
Mary Knight, a dog musher in Fairbanks, Alaska, had been looking for an off-the-grid property that she could eventually use for sledding tours, when she happened upon Tolovana Roadhouse. Built in 1924,
King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley -- an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska.
One hundred years ago today, a sled dog team left Nenana carrying lifesaving anti-toxin medication to save people in Nome from a diphtheria epidemic.
Immigration lawyers say knowledge is power amid a changing administration and uncertain future for many noncitizens.
The Alaska Long Trail has been a sought-after ambition that would create a nationally-designated, 500-mile trail route from Seward to Fairbanks.