The Story Of The Alaska Gold Rush In Nome

The Story Of The Alaska Gold Rush In Nome

It was in 1898 that a team of three prospectors actually found gold in Nome. Dubbed the “Three Lucky Swedes” Jafet Lindeberg, Erik Lindblom and John Brynteson, discovered gold on outside of present day Nome on Anvil Creek.

It was in the fall of the year that the discovery took place but news travlled hard and fast over the winter months. By the spring of 1899 there was a record 10,000 miners in the town of Nome.

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