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Photographs of archeological excavations at Coldfoot led by Bureau of Land Management archeologist Robin Mills. From 1902 until 1906, after gold was discovered on the Middle Fork of the Koyukuk River, Coldfoot was the center of the northernmost gold mining activity in the United States. The town was deserted shortly thereafter, due to a strike about 15 miles north near Wiseman. Coldfoot has seen a revival since the 1974 construction of the Haul Road and the TAPS. Robin Mills has conducted reconnaisance archeological surveys of the remaining structures at Coldfoot.
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