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Tuesday, 29th May 2007 (1873 views)

The history of a part of Alaska, integral to the history of gold and the rush that swept the area at the turn of the century, is to be preserved in a new national historical park.

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park will comprise five historic buildings and some 450,000 objects, according to reports, all forming part of the tale of the Klondike gold rush that hit that area of north America.

Most of the artefacts were collected by a resident of Skagway, the gateway to the Klondike gold rush, George Rapuzzi, who was born in 1899.

"You can pick up something that came from the Chilkoot Trail [a historic route in the area] and know it came from the Chilkoot Trail because there's a picture of George with a little box camera - somebody took a picture of him picking it up off the trail back in the 40s or the 50s," Ron Klein, spokesperson for the Brown family, according to KTUU.com.

Phyllis Brown was Mr Rapuzzi's niece and sold the property to the Rasmuson Foundation for $1 million (£505,000).

A number of movies have been made about the gold rush, including Charlie Chaplin's 1925 work The Gold Rush, which was set in Klondike.

 

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