Clay Street Cemetery

Fairbanks was incorporated on November 10, 1903, after the discovery of gold in the Tanana Valley in 1902. This burial ground was originally identified as the Fairbanks Cemetery and was later renamed Clay Street Cemetery after the adjacent street. The first burial occurred in 1903, and nearly 1600 burials followed in the years afterward. With some exceptions, the cemetery was officially closed in 1938. In 1982, Clay Street Cemetery was entered on the National Historic Register. It is the resting place of the men, women, and children who sought difficult goals and helped create the Golden Heart of Alaska.

Farmers Loop, Alaska · United States