Sights in Steese Highway
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Circle District Historical Society Museum
One of the best museums of any small Alaskan town is the Circle District Historical Society Museum in Central. Established in 1984, the main portion of the museum is a large log lodge that houses a miner's cabin, exhibits on early mining equipment and dog-team freight and mail hauling, and the Yukon Press - the first printing press north of Juneau, which produced Interior Alaska's first newspaper.
The most interesting display is the museum's collection of gold nuggets and gold flakes recovered and donated by local miners. This display, more than anything else, will help you understand why they continue to tear away at the hills and streams in an effort to find the preciou…
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Felix Pedro Monument
On the Steese Hwy, the Felix Pedro Monument commemorates the miner whose gold-strike gave birth to Fairbanks. The stream across the highway - now known as Pedro Creek - is where it all happened. You'll likely see amateur goldpanners there 'looking for color.'
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Circle
Circle is an Alaska-Native village on the banks of the broad Yukon River. Before the Dalton Hwy opened it was the northernmost point you could drive to - as a large sign in the center of town still proclaims.
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