Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

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Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
1898: Gold prospectors climb the Chilkoot Trail from Skagway over the White Pass to the gold fields
1898: Gold prospectors climb the Chilkoot Trail from Skagway over the White Pass to the gold fields
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (Alaska)
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Coordinates: 59 ° 27 '23 "  N , 135 ° 18' 42"  W.
Location: Canada
Next city: Skagway , AK and Seattle , WA , respectively
Surface: 53.4 km²
Founding: June 30, 1976
Visitors: Skagway: 912,351 (2016)
Seattle: 69,435 (2016)
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The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a memorial of the type of a National Historical Park , which at the Klondike Gold Rush remembers the late 19th century. It is divided into four sections, three in and around Skagway in Alaska and one in Seattle , Washington state . On June 30, 1976, the park was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District .

Skagway area

Administrative office of the NHP in Skagway

The National Historic Park area in Skagway encompasses most of the downtown area with 15 restored historic buildings and the visitor center. In addition, the park areas around the White Pass with around 16 km², the Chilkoot Pass with around 54 km² and the former gold rush town of Dyea are managed from Skagway .

Many remains such as parts of cable cars and equipment from the gold rush period can still be found here. The former campsites Canyon City , Pleasant Camp and Sheep Camp on the way to Chilkoot Pass are part of the NHP next to Dyea. The area around the White Pass includes the former White Pass City and Porcupine Hill settlements .

Seattle area

NHP visitor center at the Cadillac Hotel in Seattle

The Seattle area of ​​the park is in the Pioneer Square National Historic District , where the prospectors obtained equipment and headed for the Klondike. The visitor center is housed in the renovated Cadillac Hotel .

On July 17, 1897, the steamship Portland from St. Michael in Alaska had landed in Seattle with 68 gold prospectors on board. The newspapers spread the news they had brought with them about the gold discoveries on the Klondike, triggering the gold rush that followed. The Northwest Mounted Police soon only allowed prospectors to travel to the Yukon who could produce equipment and food for a year. Seattle profited from the equipment purchases and nearly doubled its population to about 80,000 between 1890 and 1900.

biodiversity

In 2010, biologists from Austria, Norway, Spain and the USA identified 766 lichen species along the gold rush trails , 75 of which could not be assigned to any known species. This makes it the most species-rich lichen population in North America.

Web links

Commons : Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Stats Report Viewer. National Park Service , accessed on December 27, 2017 (select the appropriate entry under "Park").
  2. ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed April 20, 2016
  3. ↑ Lichen Gold Rush in Alaska. Most diverse hotspot in North America discovered , in: scinexx, February 14, 2011.