The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie’s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600, more than ...

Known as Alaska’s Golden Spike, the object represented the completion ... Harding to use at a ceremony marking the completion of the railroad on July 15, near the city of Nenana.

To celebrate the railroad’s completion, President Warren G. Harding drove the golden spike into place in a ceremony held near Nenana on July 15, 1923, before it was replaced with a standard ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The golden spike that was used to complete ... Harding tapped the spike during the ceremony outside Nenana 102 years ago. The spike has since been held in private ...

The city of Anchorage thanked him for his work by presenting him the golden spike. He sent it back from Seattle for the ceremony featuring President Warren G. Harding. On July 15, 1923 ...