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Iditarod Trail Shelter Cabins, Portage Shelter Cabin, Golovin, Nome Census Area, AK
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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Date
1950 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
Location
alaska, 64.54333, -163.02917
Source
Library of Congress
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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
