Now installed at the Westmark Hotel, the curated collection of items celebrates the 50th anniversary of workers completing the gravel road that snakes 414-miles up the center of the state.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A traveling exhibit currently in Fairbanks is harkening back to a landmark event in Alaska’s economic history.
Finished on Sept. 29, 1974, the gravel corridor connecting the Interior to the North Slope was originally coined the Haul Road. That was before the state solidified the oil exploration contributions of arctic engineering and logistics expert James Dalton by renaming it the Dalton Highway in 1981. “We have the ability, while they’re still with us, to capture their oral histories that can be shared in the future,” Logan said.“I spent years up there,” he told Newscenter Fairbanks. He said he ran heavy machinery and recalled one spurt of frigid temperatures, dipping lower than 100 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, that kept workers sidelined for three days.
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