ESTER

ALASKA

Ester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the 'Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 1,978 at the 2007 census. While the village is often described as a "bedroom community" of Fairbanks, its inhabitants take exception to this description, and have a strong sense of community.

Ester was originally a gold mining camp on Ester Creek, with the first claim staked in February 1903 by Latham A. Jones. Jones worked with the Eagle Mining Company, the biggest claimholder on Glen Gulch in the Rampart mining district, but it was an independent miner, John "Jack" Mihalcik, a Czechoslovakian immigrant born in 1866, who was the first person to actually discover gold on Ester Creek. Mihalcik staked his claim in November 1903 but the news of the discovery of gold did not become public until the following February. By 1907, Ester City had a population of around 200 people, with a thriving mining industry. A social hall was completed in 1907, and was well known throughout the mining district for its dance floor. The hall was used for religious services as well as dances, movies, card games, parties, and other entertainment. The town had five saloons and a couple of hotels. In 1908 and 1910, the hall was the site of campaign speeches by candidates for the seat of Territorial Delegate. (Labor won in 1908, but Judge James Wickersham won the Ester precinct in 1910.) By 1909 Ester City had a baseball field, a doctor, a mine workers' union local, and a teacher, but gold production was beginning to decline.

The Berry Post Office moved in 1910 from near the Berry brothers' claim about two miles downstream from Ester City into J.C. Kinney's general store in Ester. (The post office retained the name of Berry until 1965, when it was finally changed to that of the town it had been in for 55 years.)[1] In the mid-1920s, the Fairbanks Exploration Company began buying claims on Ester Creek, started operations in 1929, and in 1933 built a mess hall for their camp in Ester (now a historic landmark used until 2008 as a tourist attraction and hotel). The F.E. Company revitalized the town, but they also literally reshaped it, doing large-scale open pit mining using enormous floating dredges and draglines, removing in the process much of the original sites of Berry and Ester.

Clarence Berry was a successful miner who lived in the immediate vicinity of Ester, at No. 8 Below Discovery Claim.

Richard A. Fineberg is an investigative journalist living in Ester who specializes in petroleum development and environment-related issues. He has lived in Alaska since 1969 and works as a freelance writer and consultant.

Painter Magnus Colcord "Rusty" Heurlin, 1895-1986. Rusty was born in Christanstad, Sweden, to American parents and raised in Wakefield, Massachusetts. He attended art classes at the Fenway School of Illustration in Boston. He first came to Alaska in 1916, to Valdez, but left the state during World War I. He returned to Alaska in 1924, and moved to Ester, where he remained until his death. Heurlin was known for his pastel palette and luminous skies, and influenced many later Alaska artists.

NOTE: There is so much information about Ester on Wikipedia that all of it cannot be listed here.

This information from Wikipedia: For more info. go to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska

A Message From Our Webmaster:

We need more information about this area including a photograph and any services available that visitors could participate in.

If you are able to provide this information please click our “Contact” link and email it to us and we will update our page.

Ester Alaska Home Ester Alaska Interior Alaska Ester Alaska Home Ester Alaska Ester pickalaska.com/Ester www.pickalaska.com/Ester PickAlaska Alaska Pick Alaska Pick Alaska for business vacation travel fishing hunting AK gold and gold mining coins treasure diamonds ruby emerald silver gold platinum uranium Arctic Village land homes for sale and houses business property for sale rent lease buy purchase for rent for sale cabin log logs truck car heavy equipment dozer backhoe back hoe bulldozer wash plant dredge sluice highbanker gold claim airline airplane taxi hotel motel room rooms find business home house homes land rent rental car AK hotel for sale land property cheap dirt property commercial  gold adventure residential resort hotel motel rent lease house homes home vacation travel fishing hunting gold and gold mining coins treasure land homes coin collectibles antique hotels air flying airline lakes rivers streams trees forests parks moose hotel coins AK oil star stars tv acting sing singing dance dancing model modeling Disney Universal Studios Six Flags Hollywood California vacation the game games for sale board game vacation airline books guns ammo hunt ferry boat vacation resorts lodge hotels for sale land for sale boat truck dozer backhoe car airplane for sale fishing hunt hunting moose caribou bison deer elk black bear grizzly fox lynx coyote wolverine squirrel rabbit marmot fish for salmon Coho chum rainbow grayling operate equipment excavator dozer backhoe back hoe Eskimo Indian Ahtna Athabaskan Tlinket mukluk oogarook muktuk cheechako sourdough prospect miner prospector for sale job jobs work construction job gold mining jobs operators miner see a million creeks lakes streams enjoy your vacation lodging collect Trans Alaskan Pipeline Coins and Alaska Medals and Tokens or see the oil gas Pipelines collect rare earth elements silver rhodium iridium gold mining adventures tour tours rafting raft canoe canoeing flying flightseeing vacations resorts travel destinations Alaska Visitor Destinations gold adventures coins friends gold adventures paydirt pay dirt AK gold Duffy’s Adventures Porcupine Creek Alaska Gold Paydirt gold pay dirt Visitor Vacations and Destinations and Free Alaska Gold Adventures For Sale Ester

Anchorage, Homer, Valdez, Palmer, Fairbanks, Tok, Glennallen, Chitina, Slana, Fox, Delta Junction, Paxon, Willow, Talkeetna, Sutton, Huston, Eagle River, Kenai, North Slope, Yukon, Chicken, Dawson, Juneau, Platinum, Mt. McKinley, Montana Creek, Seward, Nome, Wales, Prudhoe Bay and other Alaska cities. What can you do in Alaska? You may: Relax in your room; swim in the pool or soak in the Jacuzzi; have a five course dinner; go gold mining or gold prospecting or find gold and stake your own gold mining claim; go hunting or fishing; camp along the thousands of creeks or lakes or miles of beaches; go hiking, bicycling, ATV riding, trail riding or even horse back riding; go on a cruise on one of the hundreds of tour boats or sightseeing from a bush plane; go on a tour of the Wrangle, St. Elias National Park and Preserve - the largest in North America; visit abandoned villages and gold mining camps; see the Yukon River, the midnight sun, cross the Arctic Circle or visit Alaska Native Villages and Eskimo Igloos; see moose, caribou, grizzle and brown bears, black bear, fox, ptarmigan, salmon, wolverines, coyotes, lynx, mink, otters, seals, walrus, geese, ducks and hundreds of other birds including the Bald Eagle, the Raven and the infamous Camp Robber; go on sled dog rides or see Musk Ox and Reindeer; rent 4x4 ATV’s for trail rides or canoes for a ride down the river; see Mt. McKinley, the largest mountain in North America or visit places that have been here since before Alaska became a state such as Duffy’s Roadhouse at mile 63 on the Tok Cutoff Highway or you may visit the hundreds of other historic places that are on the maps; and you could go to museums, plays, theatres, shopping, antique stores and pawn shops or visit Russian Orthodox Churches built over a hundred years ago or visit fishing villages where the villagers have fished for hundreds of years; and, you could even learn the meaning of the words such as “cheechako”, “sourdough”, “muktuk”, “oogarook” or “cuspuck”.

* We are not realtors. All land and property shown is for sale by the owner or by real estate companies and will include their contact information. Do not contact us - we are not realtors. Please read our Terms and Conditions. Also see Privacy below. When you use our site you agree that you agree with out Terms and Conditions “information” provided and you also agree with our Privacy Policy - see Privacy below.

Copyright: 1982 - 2002 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2016  - 2018 by Mac Turney - all International Rights Reserved and

All images, script, software, advertising and more owned by others belong to them and may not be copied.

Privacy: We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here. DoubleClick DART cookie:

Click Here to go back to Pick Alaska Home

Play to view our Alaska Videos: Caribou, Gold Mining, Gold, Earthquake, + more