White Alice Communications System, HAER No. AK-23 (Historic American Engineering Record)

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Source Type: government-document
Author: Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service; survey photographs Rob Stapleton
URL: https://www.loc.gov/item/ak0213/
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/2026/https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/habshaer/ak/ak0200/ak0213/data/ak0213data.pdf

The Section 106 documentation written when the Air Force needed to demolish its White Alice stations: a 46-page system history plus station-by-station records. Supplies the WECO contract (1955), the first stations (Boswell Bay and Neklasson Lake, 1956), the $38 million estimate that became $113 million for phase one, the 1.5 million circuit-miles figure, the Alaska Communications Disposal Act (1967) and RCA/Alascom transfer, and the closure dates. Its station count (31 original, “original 33” in one passage) differs from other accounts - we carry the disagreement in footnotes.

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