The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...
Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through ...
The total cost of purchasing the 14-karat gold railroad spike at auction, to reclaim a piece of Alaska Railroad history, was ...
The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden railroad spike that was used in a celebration commemorating the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923.
the city of Anchorage presented him with the golden spike in appreciation of his work. He sent the spike back from Seattle for the Harding event in Nenana, a community in interior Alaska.
Harding in Nenana, Alaska, just days before he died in office, which marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad over a century ago. (Christie's Images via AP) ...
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 ...
Nenana Mayor Joshua Verhagen said the ... Wilson when he sought to establish a new railroad in Alaska territory. Shah, of the Anchorage Museum, told me how great it was to see two institutions ...