"The North Pole"

Historical marker location:

275 E 5th Ave, Fairbanks, Alaska

( Marker is on East 5th Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Davis Boulevard, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1976

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, signed into law in 1971, was the largest land settlement in United States history. The act provided for the transfer of over 44 million acres of land and nearly $1 billion to Alaska Native corporations.