Lost and Found: Using Historical Records and Archaeological Survey to Rediscover a Historic Stamp Mill
Author(s): Tamara Holman
Year: 2018
Summary
One of the many gold mining interests of Fairbanks, Alaska pioneer Tom Gilmore was a custom gold processing mill on Fairbanks Creek. The 5-stamp Allis Chalmers mill was unique to the district when it was installed in 1915. After his death in 1932, Gilmore’s widow continued custom milling operations. The Gilmore Mill was lost to history because the nearby McCarty Mill had been misidentified as the Gilmore Mill in a Fairbanks historic buildings inventory and repeated by multiple sources. This paper outlines the history of the Gilmore Mill, and the historical and archaeological processes through which it has been rediscovered.
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Lost and Found: Using Historical Records and Archaeological Survey to Rediscover a Historic Stamp Mill. Tamara Holman. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441525)
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Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
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PaperId(s): 748