Moose Pass
The community here in Moose Pass was founded during the Hope-Sunrise gold rush when Oscar Christensen and his partner, Mickey Natt, arrived in 1909 and built a log roadhouse for miners heading north. Moose Pass came into its own when the original Iditarod National Historic Trail was cut around the lake in 1910-11 and later when the Alaska Railroad Company built a small freight shed and receiving platform for heavy machinery in 1927. The first post office was established in 1928 and the town was named – so the story goes – because a mail carrier and his team of dogs had considerable trouble gaining the right-of-way from a moose.
If you zoom in you should be able to read that sign. One of the locals built a giant waterwheel with a sharpening stone attached to it so if you have an axe to grind, you can do it here.
Moose Pass
The community here in Moose Pass was founded during the Hope-Sunrise gold rush when Oscar Christensen and his partner, Mickey Natt, arrived in 1909 and built a log roadhouse for miners heading north. Moose Pass came into its own when the original Iditarod National Historic Trail was cut around the lake in 1910-11 and later when the Alaska Railroad Company built a small freight shed and receiving platform for heavy machinery in 1927. The first post office was established in 1928 and the town was named – so the story goes – because a mail carrier and his team of dogs had considerable trouble gaining the right-of-way from a moose.
If you zoom in you should be able to read that sign. One of the locals built a giant waterwheel with a sharpening stone attached to it so if you have an axe to grind, you can do it here.