Historical Markers in
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska

Alaska's Gold Rush Era Barnette's Landing Clay Street Cemetery Cushman Street Fairbanks Public Schools Gold Dredge No. 8 Harding Car Immaculate Conception Church James A. Maple Lacey Street Theater (1939) Pipeline Facts Pipeline History Suter House Tanana Valley Gold The Founding of Fairbanks "The Line" "The North Pole" Welcome to Coldfoot Camp Wickersham Cabin
Alaska was once owned by Russia and was known as "Russian America". The Russians established their first settlement on the Kenai Peninsula in 1786, and Alaska remained a Russian colony until it was sold to the United States in 1867.
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