Kern, Alaska

1914 Panorama photograph showing, at center-right, buildings at Kern Creek empting in to the Turnagain Arm

Kern is a former settlement on the Turnagain Arm in Alaska and a flagstop for the Alaska Railroad, about 71 miles (114 km) north of Seward,^[1][2][3] and 13 miles (21 km) east of Sunrise, Alaska.^[4] Kern was located near Kern Creek.^[1] In 1914 it was the end of the track of the Alaska Northern Railroad, after which it was purchased by the United States government.^[1][5]

In the summer of 1911 United States Secretary of the Interior, Walter L. Fisher, visited Kern as part of an inspection tour.^[6] The April 1915 contract to build a line of railroad from Seward to Kern was entered into the Congressional Record of the 64th United States Congress.^[7] The cost of shipping beer to Kern and other intermediate stations along the Alaska Railroad was entered in the Congressional Record of the 76th United States Congress in regard to the omnibus spending bill for that session^[8] and 1938 Senate hearings.^[9]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kern, Alaska
2. "One Man Killed in Rail Mishap". The Bend Bulletin. Bend, Oregon. January 10, 1947. p. 4. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
3. "Kern Topo Map, Anchorage County AK (Seward D-6 Area)". TopoZone. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
4. Donald J. Orth (1967). Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 511.
5. Williams, Anita; Ewers, Linda (2003). Ride Guide to the Historic Alaska Railroad. Turnagain Products. p. 18. ISBN 9780939301010. OCLC 953044443.
6. "On Journey to Skagway". Great Falls Tribune. Great Falls, Montana. August 31, 1911. p. 1. Retrieved May 18, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
7. United States. Congress (1916). Congressional Record Containing The Proceedings and Debates of the First Session of the Sixty-Fourth Congress of The United States of America. Vol. LIII. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 224–226.
8. Omnibus Transportation Bill: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2531, a Bill to Redistribute the Functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission with a View to More Efficient Exercise of Rate-making Authority; to Extend the Jurisdiction of the Commission in Relation to the Fixing of Minimum Rates, and Rates for Inland Water Transportation; to Create a Railroad Reorganization Court; and for Other Purposes. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1939. p. 1797.
9. United States. Congress. Senate (1938). Hearings. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 325.

External links

• Kern, Alaska on Ghosttowns.com

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