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Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge is a 2,200-acre sanctuary at Fairbanks, Alaska, where wetlands, fields, and forest attract large numbers of migrating birds in spring and fall. The refuge developed around a dairy begun by Charles Hinckley after his arrival in 1904 and later owned by Charles Albert Creamer, who built the present barn in 1938 and fed migrating birds with saved grain. Alaska purchased land around the dairy in 1969 to create the refuge, and preservationists helped protect it after Creamer’s death in 1974. More than 100 bird species have been recorded there, and its farm buildings are interior Alaska’s only surviving pioneer dairy complex.
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Farmers Loop, Alaska · United States
