The following 72 Inupiat Eskimos are interred in this common grave. Pray, honor and remember these villagers, who lost their lives during the short span of five days, in the influenza pandemic, November 15-20, 1918.
Abeyorok, Mike, 26 . . . — — Map (db m149930) HM
Running down Front Street and passing this monument to the Iditarod National Historic Trail--Authorized By the US Congress 1978, the Trail begins in Seward, Alaska with Tripod Milepost #0. The trail winds its way through the heart of the . . . — — Map (db m290377) HM
This Wells Fargo Store began as the Miners & Merchants Bank of Nome in 1904. In 1987, it became part of National Bank of Alaska, a pioneer and leader in branch banking in Alaska. In 2000 National Bank of Alaska merged with Wells Fargo & Company. . . . — — Map (db m290376) HM
Sharing Food, Sharing Life Then and Now
Ukpiaġvik, which means the place where we hunt snowy owls, was one of several ancient villages in the Barrow area. Our ancestors settled here primarily to hunt the great bowhead whales. But . . . — — Map (db m49595) HM
This Sign Greeted New Arrivals As They Arrived At The Pipeline Construction Camp Located One Mile West Of Here. We Salvaged This Sign When The Camp Was Being Dismantled.
You are about 55 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the East Bank . . . — — Map (db m49597) HM
President Warren G. Harding, first U.S. President to visit Alaska traveled here to pound the Golden Spike signalling completion of the Alaska Railroad from tidewater to the interior July 15, 1926.
State of Alaska
Governor Walter J. Hickel . . . — — Map (db m42948) HM