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Take a Look at this one Hey Dusty and I just realized that you may not know much about the History of the discovery of gold in alaska. So we have decided to give you a breif history of gold being found in Alaska. Most people know about the famous 1897 Gold Rush in the Alaska - Yukon Territory, But the first Alaska Gold was actually discovered in 48 years earlier on the Kenai Peninsula. There was a pre-Rush find in 1896, which lured as many as 3,000 prospectors to the Cook Inlet area, which planted the beginning of present-day Girdwood and Anchorage areas. In the early 1900s, the Gold Fields in the Mat-Su and Knik areas both which are near the head of the Cook Inlet and the foot of the Iditarod Trail. Which became a transportation hub for the Gold fields of the areas. Many of the boom towns have become ghost twons now. But most of the miners in their rush to move on left behind plenty of evidence of their travels and travails. Most of which are on display in area museums. Things like abandoned equipment, diaries and photos. Other treasures can be found at the end of long dirt roads, or by the sides of local hiking trails. Treasures like heavey wood sluice boxes to complete mining camps are the items that can be found. 2 1/2 hours by road south of Anchorage is the Hope Sunrise area, which is the starting point for the local Gold Rush history. Site of both the first monumental Gold discovery by Russian engineer Peter Doroshin in 1849 and the monumental rediscovery of gold by miner Al King on the Kenai Peninsula, which touched off the Cook Inlet stampede. Mail Me click here! 

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