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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: July 27, 2010
Caption: Cleary Creek miners arriving in Fairbanks with 1400 lbs. gold dust. May 20th 09
Additional Description: A packtrain crosses the Chena River at Tuner Street in 1909. Crossing the Chena River required a ferry until a wooden bridge was built. Each year the bridge had to be taken down before spring break-up, or the swollen river and ice floes would sweep the bridge away as if it were made of matchsticks. For several years the rebuilt bridge crossing alternated between Cushman Street and Turner Street.
Submitted: September 20, 2011, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p172998
File Size: 2.805 Megabytes

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