Friday, July 10, 2009

Driving tour of Dawson City

We climbed into our cars and caravaned through town. The Yukon Saw Mill Co. building is original to the 1900's.

We drove past this Church.

And we drove past St. Andrew's Episcopal Church which was established in 1901.


A family still lives in this tiny cabin year round.

This is a food storage building at Jack London's Cabin.

This is the plaque on Jack London's cabin.

These are the raised bed platforms in the cabin.

The wood stove served as both a heat source and a place to heat coffee.

The sod roof helped to insulate the cabin. This is all much too primitive for me.

This is the information cabin at Robert Service's cabin.

This plaque tells about Robert Service and his writings about the Klondike during the early 1900's.

Looks like he enjoyed just hanging out and enjoying the weather.

His cabin was a lot less primitive than Jack London's.

He even had a real bed.


We drove up to the cemetery. This propeller marker on this grave indicated that it is the grave of one of the original brush pilots.

There were a lot of different cemeteries in this area. Each church had their own as did each organization.

This is the area where the original Royal Mounted Police were buried.

We left the cemetery and then drove to Midnight Dome. This is a view of our RV park from the Dome.

This is looking toward the gold mining area.

This is the plaque from the Midnight Dome.

This is looking towards the river from the Dome.

Its back to the campground for dinner.

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