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The Alaska Railroad’s Golden Spike Hammered in by President Harding Will Return to Its Home State
The spike's installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It's spent most of the time since then in the ...
A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction
President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ...
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‘Golden Spike’ that symbolically completed Alaska Railroad headed back to the state after auction
A variety of private donors supplied money for the purchase, the museum and city of Nenana said in their statement.
Anchorage Museum among Alaskans combining to win auction for Alaska Railroad's golden spike
The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...