In this image, July 15, 1923, provided by the Alaska State Library Historical Collections ... looking for this site and looking for the golden spike,” Verhagen said. “So it’s kind of ...

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.

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

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 ...

The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad over a century ago will be on permanent display in<a ...

Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The golden spike ... s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600, more than four times the $50,000 top-line estimate for the historical artifact.

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 ...

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.