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Shelter Cabin Nos. 1 & 2, Noatak, Northwest Arctic Borough, AK
Summary
Significance: These shelter cabins were used by dog-sled mail carriers on the Kotzebue-Point Barrow mail trail during the period 1925-1950. Shelter Number 1, built and designed by the Alaska Road Commission for mail trail use, commemorates territorial communication systems in remote Alaska before air transport became dominant.
Survey number: HABS AK-13
Building/structure dates: ca. 1925 Initial Construction
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Date
1925
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Alaska Road Commission
Snow, Dave, delineator
Brown, Bill, historian
Location
alaska, 67.57111, -162.96528
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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
