This Day in Alaska History-September 22nd, 1898
The first, and one of the largest placer gold finds, was discovered on the Seward Peninsula by three Swedes, Jafet Lindeberg, Erik Lindblom, and John Brynteson at Anvil, Glacier, Rock, and Dry creeks, and Snow Gulch Creek on September 22nd 1898. Those early finds would spur a rush to the peninsula, and by Spring of […]
