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Item Title
Iditarod Trail Shelter Cabins, Portage Shelter Cabin, Portage, Anchorage, AK
LocationPortage Shelter Cabin,
Portage, AK
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS AK-5-C
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-4).
Significance: The Portage Site, location of a roadhouse during the Nome Gold Rush, was at Mile 863 on the Seward-Iditarod-Nome Trail. During 1919-1920, the Territorial Road Commission, a counterpart to the Alaska Road Commission, contracted with mail carrier Pete Curran to build shelter cabins along Norton Sound, among them the Portage Shelter Cabin.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL VIEW, FROM SOUTH
2. WEST AND SOUTH SIDES
3. SOUTH AND EAST SIDES
4. SOUTH SIDE
WEST AND SOUTH SIDES
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