USAG Alaska - Fort Wainwright
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Cultural Resources - Public Outreach

Please feel free to download the following materials concerning Fort Wainwright's National Historic Landmark and Cold War Historic District. If you are looking for something not listed below, please contact the Cultural Resources Manager at (907) 361-3002.

• National Historic Landmark and Historic District Map

For More Information

Call (907) 361-3002. Visit Cultural Resources located in building 3023, room 102 for free posters, publications, and other educational materials.

Publications

Publications

Histories

• Hiding in Plain Sight: Off-Post Military Sites of World War II and the Cold War, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
• The Alaska Highway: its Origins, Construction, and Impacts
• Beacons of Civilization: Roadhouses of Donnelly Training Area
• Cold Missions, The U.S. Army Air Force and Ladd Field in World War II
• Cold War Historical Context for Fort Richardson, Alaska
• Cold Weather Testing in Alaska: 1940-1970
• Dispelling the Cold Bugaboo: A History of the Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory, 1947-1967
• Early Electrification of Anchorage, Alaska
• Early Mining History, Fort Wainwright and Fort Greely, Alaska
• Early Transportation Routes, Fort Wainwright, Alaska
• The Great Arsenal of Democracy in Alaska : Lend-Lease Operations
• The Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline
• Homesteads on Fort Richardson, Alaska
• Homesteads on Fort Wainwright, Alaska
• Nike Hercules Operations in Alaska: 1959-1979
  • Section 1
  • Section 2
• Northern Defenders, Cold War Context of Ladd Air Force Base, Fairbanks, Alaska
• Their War, Too: the Women's Army Corps and Ladd Field
• The U.S. Air Force F-82 Twin Mustang and the Fate of 46-497
• The War Remembered: Life at Ladd field During World War II
• The World War II Heritage of Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska
• Tracking the Unthinkable, The Donnelly Flats Midas Ground Station and the Early Development of Space Warning Systems: 1959-1967

Brochures

Brochures

• Archaeological Resources of Fort Wainwright
• Fort Wainwright's Ladd Air Force Base Cold War Historic District
• Ladd Field National Historic Landmark

Educational Fact Sheets

Educational Fact Sheets

• Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings
• Additions to Historic Building
• Conserving Energy in Historic Buildings
• Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties

Other Educational Materals

Other Educational Materials

• Interactive Interpretive Panels
  • A Battle Against the Cold
  • The Secret Airway to Russia
• Interpretive Panels
  • Chena Elementary
  • Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory
  • F-82 Twin Mustang  
  • Communications on the Last Frontier
  • Ladd Field Chapel
  • Wartime Life at Ladd
  • Wartime Growth of an Installation
  • World War II Heritage
  • Cold War in Alaska
  • Overview of Ladd Field
  • Aviation History of Ladd, Fort Wainwright
  • Earthen Igloo
• Walking/Driving Tour of Ladd Field National Historic Landmark

Curriculum

Curriculum

• Archaeology Tool Kits for Teachers are currently available, contact us for more information
• Ladd Field National Historic Landmark Lesson Plan
• Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Buildings as Applied to Ladd Field

Materials for Youth

Materials for Youth

• Activity Book - Archaeology on Fort Wainwright-Managed Lands
• Activity Book - Flying High in the Sky!
• Activity Book - Ladd Field Goes to the Dogs!
• Worksheet - Alaska Archaeology
• Worksheet - Historic Buildings
• Worksheet - Native Neighbors

Published Papers

Published Papers

• Reduction, and use of Lithic Technology from ca. 9500-11,800 Years Ago at Niidhaayh Na', Central Alaska.

Authors: Briana Doering, Julie Esdale, and Senna Catenacci
Publication: Paleoamerica June 5, 2021:1-15.

The authors describe the stratigraphy and archaeological assemblages from two late-glacial occupations at the Niidhaayh Na' (XBD-110) archaeological site.

• Organization in the Late Holocene: Results from the Clearview Site (XMH-1303)

Authors: Briana Doering, Julie Esdale, Joshua Reuther, and Senna Catenacci
Publication: Alaska Journal of Anthropology 18(2):1-19, 2020

The authors report on the artifacts and spatial arrangement of the Clearview site in Donnelly Training Area and that argue that decreased hunter-gatherer mobility, increased subsistence specialization, and increased used of metal and bone tools occurred after occupation at this site.

• A Multiscalar Consideration of the Athabascan Migration
  Authors: Briana Doering, Julie Esdale, Joshua Reuther, and Senna Catenacci
  Publication: American Antiquity 85(3):470-491, 2020

The authors use data gained from sites in Interior Alaska (including three sites in Donnelly Training Area: Caribou Knob, Clearview, and Delta Creek) to argue that the late Prehistoric Athabascan migration resulted from gradual demographic shifts rather than ecological deterioration from the White River volcanic eruption and ash fall event.

• The Micromorphology of Loess-Paleosol Sequences in Central Alaska: A New Perspective on Soil Formation and Landscape Evolution since the Late Glacial Period (c. 16,000 cal yr BP to Present)

  Authors: Jennifer Kielhofer, Christopher Miller, Joshua Reuther, Charles Holmes, Ben Potter, François Lanoë, Julie Esdale, and Barbara Crass
  Publication: Geoarchaeology 1-28, 2020

​​This paper uses geological data from several sites in the Tanana Valley, including the Delta River Overlook Site in Donnelly Training Area to interpret how landscapes in the area changed since the last glaciation.

• Core and Blade Technology at the Fort Greely Entrance Site

  Authors: Julie Esdale, Charles Holmes, and Kate Yeske
  Publication: Alaska Journal of Anthropology 14(1&2):114-120, 2016

This research note outlines a unique microblade production sequence present in the stone tool assemblage left behind at a small surficial archaeological site in Donnelly Training Area.

• Banjo Lake: A Middle Holocene Site in the Tanana Valley

  Authors: Julie Esdale, Aaron Robertson, and William Johnson
  Publication: Alaska Journal of Anthropology 13(1):35-56, 2015

This is a report of the excavations at the 6000 year old Banjo Lake Site in Donnelly Training Area. This site belongs within the Northern Archaic Tradition but contains none of the projectile points diagnostic of that period. Site geology, artifacts, radiocarbon dates, and activities are described.

• Pleistocene Archaeology of the Tanana Flats, Eastern Beringia

  Authors: Edmund Gaines, Kate Yeske, Scott J. Shirar, William Johnson, and James Kunesh
  Publication: Current Research in the Pleistocene 28:42-44, 2011

This paper introduces several deeply buried late Pleistocene archaeological sites in the Tanana Flats.