The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a ...
The spike's installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It's spent most of the time since then in the ...
The golden spike used to complete the Alaska Railroad over 100 years ago will now be permanently displayed in Alaska for the ...
The Anchorage Museum, along with the City of Nenana, bought a special railroad spike at a Christie’s auction for $200,000.
A variety of private donors supplied money for the purchase, the museum and city of Nenana said in their statement.
An Alaska museum and city, with help from donors including the Alaska Railroad, have won the auction for a 14-karat gold ...
The city of Nenana collaborated with the Anchorage Museum and other private donors to purchase the golden spike at a Christie’s Auction House auction in New York City.
President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ...
Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago ...
The total cost of purchasing the 14-karat gold railroad spike at auction, to reclaim a piece of Alaska Railroad history, was ...
The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...