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September 20, 2018

Century-old telegraph cabin in Alaska returns home after crews reinforce eroding riverbank

  • Alaska's Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation used crowdfunding to raise funds to move the cabin.
    • By SAM FRIEDMAN
    Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    Photo by Sam Friedman/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP [enlarge]
    The cabin in Delta Junction was moved away from the Tanana River because of fast-moving erosion in 2016. It was returned this summer.

    BIG DELTA, Alaska — The Tanana River now passes harmlessly by the 1907 telegraph cabin that was previously threatened by erosion here in Big Delta State Historical Park.


     
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