Monument sights in Nome
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Iditarod Finish-Line Arch
In a lot next to the city hall is the Iditarod Finish-Line Arch. The huge wooden structure, a distinctly bent pine tree with burls, is raised over Front St every March in anticipation of the mushers and their dogsled teams ending the 1049-mile race here. The original arch fell apart after the 1999 race, and Nome, in a basically treeless region, sent out a call for help throughout the state to find a new one. The present pine was located near Hope, on the Kenai Peninsula.
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Donald Perkins Memorial Plaza
Overlooking the seawall, is the Donald Perkins Memorial Plaza, featuring a collection of old mining detritus, including dredge buckets. During Nome's golden heyday there were more than 100 gold dredges in the area, and each one had hundreds of these buckets to scoop up gravel and dirt. Today you'll see the buckets all over town, often used as giant flowerpots. On the seawall near the plaza is a wooden platform that provides views of the Bering Sea and Sledge Island.
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