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Document 75: Excerpt from diary of Joseph H. Cavanagh, Eagle City, Alaska, May 16, 1901.


Eagle City, Alaska. May 16th. Seven o'clock breakfast. 8:05 River rising. Not much ice running. We are once more under the Stars and Stripes. "Three cheers for old Glory" was given with a will. Sighted Eagle City at just 11:00 A.M. This is a nice town site, but no town by a damn site. Population 500, four stores, the A.E.A.C., the N.A.T.&T., and the S.Y.T. Ces. Co. of St. S. Infantry 7th, Col Ray in charge. One large saw mill owned by the Gov. Two saloons, two laundries, one private saw mill.

—Diary of Joseph H. Cavanagh, trip to Nome, Alaska, May 16, 1901

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