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Northeast Point Road 1922. Construction of a road to Northeast Point began in 1922 to forego having to bring the sealskins by boats from the Northeast Point Rookery to the new village washhouse. The road was completed in 1932 with 1.7 miles of plank road built along Big Lake and over the dunes. Scoria fill replaced the plank road in 1938. In 1939, the portion of the road that “crosses the big sand dune was elevated by scoria fill to twelve inches above the level of drifting sand, in order that the wind might keep the surface of the road swept clear” (Bower 1932, 75; Bower 1940, 148; Bower 1941, 161). |
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NOAA created this product in partial fulfillment
of a memorandum of agreement between it and the Alaska State Historic
Preservation Officer. |
