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Dredge No. 4 (Hän: Lëzrą Kä̀nëchà "s/he is looking for money") is a wooden-hulled bucketline sluice dredge that mined placer gold on the Yukon River from 1913 until 1959. It is now located along Bonanza Creek Road 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the Klondike Highway [ 1 ] near Dawson City , Yukon , where it is preserved as one of the ...
Several National Historic Events also occurred in Yukon, and are identified at places associated with them, using the same style of federal plaque which marks National Historic Sites. National Historic Persons are commemorated in the same way. The markers do not indicate which designation—a Site, Event, or Person—a subject has been given.
Discovery Claim (Claim 37903) National Historic Site Claim No. 37903 Bonanza Creek YT ... Dredge No. 4 National Historic Site Lot 586, group 1052 Bonanza Creek YT
The "Discovery Claim (Claim 37903)", a mining claim on Bonanza Creek where the Klondike Gold Rush began, the discovery of which marked the beginning of the development of the Yukon; [4] and "Dredge No. 4", a preserved bucketline sluice dredge used to mine placer gold and which symbolizes the importance of dredging operations to the evolution of ...
Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site, British Columbia Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine; S.S. Klondike National Historic Site, Yukon; S.S. Keno National Historic Site, Yukon; Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site, Yukon; Dredge No. 4 National Historic Site, Yukon "Thirty Mile" National Heritage River (a section of the ...
Many of these large dredges still exist today in state-sponsored heritage areas (Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge), or tourist attractions (Dredge No. 4 National Historic Site of Canada). Gold dredges were used in New Zealand from the 1860s, although the earlier dredges were of primitive design and not very successful. [2]
In 1998, the 500 ton dredge was moved overland to its current location at the Chicken Gold Camp. [ 2 ] In 2006, the dredge was added to the National Register of Historic Places and was opened to the public.
The Coal Creek Historic Mining District (Hän: Zhùr näddhä`ww juu) is a gold-mining area in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve of Alaska dating from the 1930s. It features a gold dredge and a supporting community of several dozen buildings, established by mining entrepreneur Ernest Patty.