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Summary

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.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4

Survey number: HABS AK-5-C

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cabins alaska iditarod trail shelter iditarod trail shelter cabins portage portage shelter cabin golovin nome nome census area history of alaska alaska free images alaska photographs historic american buildings survey liz jandoli photo ultra high resolution high resolution cabin library of congress
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Date

1950 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
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Location

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Source

Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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