| Pipeline Workers Monument |
Valdez |
AK |
On June 20, 1977, oil began traveling through the trans-Alaska pipeline. Seventy thousand people worked on the pipeline, history's largest privately-financed construction project. |
Commissioned by R.O. Anderson, Chairman of the Board of Atlantic Richfield Company, August, 1977. |
| "The Prospector" Statue |
Sitka |
AK |
The discovery and mining of gold in Alaska and the pioneering of new territory could offer substantial wealth and fame for prospectors. The Alaska Pioneers Home, started in 1913, was constructed for elderly gold prospectors. |
The model for the statue, William "Skagway Bill" Fonda, was an actual pioneer. |
