"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

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.