Shortly after, the golden spike was returned to Mears, and Harding began the long trip back to Washington. He suffered a fatal heart attack and died in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 1923.
Anchorage Museum On July 15, 1923, President Warren Harding hammered a golden spike into train tracks in central Alaska. It was the ceremonial final piece of the Alaska Railroad, which connected ...
In 2002, and then every year since 2014, Lee and Leland Wong, the great-grandson of a railroad laborer, have hosted a flash mob of sorts to re-create the tableau at Golden Spike National Historical ...
0.33% copper, 0.04 g/t gold over 11.15 m (hole GR-24-003, 69.85m to 81.0 m) – Including, 1.29% copper, 0.19 g/t gold over 1.50 m (69.85m to 71.35m) – and 1.37% copper, 0.02 g/t gold over 0.50 ...
“The Golden Spike is a great piece of storytelling about place and people.” The plan is for the two cities to alternate displaying the spike. “I think it’s a neat story of an urban and a ...
The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden railroad spike that was used in a celebration commemorating the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. The item was ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system ...
I’LL CHECK IN ON THEM, MAKE SURE THEY’RE DOING IT RIGHT. President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial ...