Left bank of the Yukon River 2 mi. down from Coal Creek, Eagle, Alaska. County/parish: Yukon-Koyukuk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 21, 1987. NRIS 87001199.
Part of Yukon River Lifeways TR (NRIS 64000004).
1 contributing building.
The George McGregor Cabin on the Yukon River, about two miles downstream from Coal Creek, in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve of Alaska is a historic Log cabin built in 1938 that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
George McGregor was a successful gold miner, who staked multiple gold claims including the "discovery claim" on Mineral Creek, a tributary of Woodchopper Creek, which he worked for about 10 years and then sold these in the mid-1930s. Then he switched to trapping for furs; in 1938 he built this cabin and developed a trapline. As the trapline would be operated in the winter, by dogsled visits, he fished in the summer for food for his dogs using a fishwheel. The cabin is a one-roomed saddle-notched log cabin which is representative of what trappers used.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75325261