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Northway in old photos and postcards

Postcards, papers and photographs of Northway from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.

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The story so far

Northway, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Northway yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Northway (Upper Tanana: K’ehtthiign) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States, also encompassing the sites of Charlieskin Village and Kathakne. Prior to the 2020 Census, the borders of the CDP was expanded, merging with Northway Junction and Northway Village. The population was 234 at the 2020 census, up from 71 in 2010.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 71 to 234 (+230%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Northway, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

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1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Then & now

Stand where they stood

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Landing Fields - Alaska
Retake this viewLanding Fields - Alaska, 1917

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Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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