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

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

President Warren Harding hammered a golden spike into train tracks in central Alaska. It was the ceremonial final piece of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a ...

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 ...

The blood drive, in partnership with the New York ... Before Mears left, the city of Anchorage presented him with the golden spike in appreciation of his work. He sent the spike back from Seattle ...