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Swanberg Dredge

99762 Nome, AK, United States of America (USA) (Alaska )
Address Mile Marker 1 of Nome-Council Highway
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Mining
  • Historic Engineering Landmarks

Opening times
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Admission
Status from 07/2023
 We don't know the fees.
Contact
Tel.:+1-907-443-66 45  Tel.2:+1-907-443-66 63  
eMail:cleeper nomealaska.org   
Homepage
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www.nomealaska.org/parksrec/page/swanberg-dredge
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Location / Directions
N64.492610° W165.366110°N64°29.55660' W165°21.96660'N64°29'33.3960" W165°21'57.9960"
The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea.

Water ports

Nome has a seaport, used by freight ships and cruise ships, located at 64° 30’ N and 165° 24’ W on the southern side of the Seward Peninsula in Norton Sound.

Airports

Nome is a regional center of transportation for surrounding villages. There are two state-owned airports.

Surface transportation

Local roads lead to Council, the Kougarok River, and Teller: the Nome-Council, Nome-Taylor, and Nome-Teller Highways respectively. There are also smaller roads to communities up to 87 miles (140 km) from Nome, yet no road connection to the other major cities of Alaska.

The Swanberg Dredge is located at about mile marker 1 of the Nome-Council Highway just inside the city limits. The dredge stands in a pond about 200 feet (61 m) north of the highway in a small pond.
Description

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Swanberg Dredge is one of several gold mining dredges that dot the landscape near Nome, Alaska. Also known as the Johnson-Pohl Dredge. It has a barge-like hull with a mostly single-story superstructure, and measures about 60 by 30 feet (18.3 m × 9.1 m), with a draft of 6 feet (1.8 m). Its metal frame bow gantry extends about 5 feet (1.5 m), and has a digging ladder 40 feet (12 m) long. The dredge was built in San Francisco, California, shipped to Nome, and placed in operation in 1946 by Walter Johnson. The economics associated with the cost of its construction and shipment, as compared to the price of gold, worked against Johnson, who only operated it for a single season before it was seized by a local bank. It has sat in place since then, typifying the sometimes hard-luck small-time mining operations of the area.
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