The total cost of purchasing the 14-karat gold railroad spike at auction, to reclaim a piece of Alaska Railroad history, was ...

A variety of private donors supplied money for the purchase, the museum and city of Nenana said in their statement.

The city of Nenana collaborated with the Anchorage Museum and other private donors to purchase the golden spike at a Christie’s Auction House auction in New York City.

In December, leaders of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska began hearing “some rumblings” on social media. Those “rumblings,” as Monica Shah, the museum’s deputy director of collections and ...

In this image, July 15, 1923, provided by the Alaska State Library Historical Collections, President Warren G. Harding drives the final golden spike at ... chose a muddy site along Ship Creek ...

Anchorage Museum among Alaskans combining to win auction for Alaska Railroad's golden spike - The golden spike that was used ...

The item was auctioned off by Christie's auction house Friday as part of its Americana Week featuring other rare American historical ... for this site and looking for the golden spike," Verhagen ...

Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska ... but the government instead chose a muddy site along Ship Creek in what is now downtown Anchorage.U.S. Army Col.

This image provided by Christie's Images shows a golden spike driven by President Warren G. Harding in Nenana, Alaska, just days before he died in office, which marked the completion of the Alaska ...