Gold Placers Incorporated, Warehouse, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Significance: Gold mining is an important theme in the history of the upper Yukon River region in Alaska and Canada. One of several mining camps in the area, the Coal Creek Mining Camp contains many important cultural and historical resources, including the camp buildings, the gold dredge, tailings piles, earth-moving equipment, and assorted artifacts. Most camp buildings have been fully restored, and they represent perhaps the best-preserved gold mining camp in Alaska. The Gold Placers Incorporated, Warehouse represents the earliest configuration of the mobile gold dredge camp (often called Camp #1). The gold dredge was built near this camp location and several buildings related to machine parts and repair remained in this location even as other buildings (bunkhouses and mess hall, for example) were moved to follow the dredge. The warehouse serves as an open-air museum full of tools and machine parts, many of which are in their original packaging.
Survey number: HAER AK-11-B
Building/structure dates: 1935 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 95000573