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Steele Creek Community Site
Two people wearing hardhats shovel away the earth berms and dig a trench to expose the rotten wall logs on the north side of the Steele Creek Roadhouse in 2009.
(Photo credit: Kevan Cooper, BLM Alaska)
1898 - 1950s
Founded in 1898 and largely uninhabited by 1951, Steele Creek Community Site is an abandoned settlement where goods and services were once provided to travelers passing through this area of Eastern Alaska. The Steele Creek Roadhouse, one of the four remaining log buildings at the site, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the oldest standing building in Alaska’s Fortymile River drainage. In 2002, the Bureau of Land Management initiated a multi-year rehabilitation program to save the buildings from further deterioration.
Site connection to the National Historic Preservation Act
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Section 106 work has occurred to rehabilitate the site.
Read aloud by the Juneau Community Charter School 4/5 grade class.
For more information:
Steele Creek Community Structure A Rehabilitation, 2006 (PDF)
Steele Creek Roadhouse Rehabilitation, June-July 2009 (PDF)
Steele Creek Roadhouse Rehabilitation, July 2010 (PDF)
Steele Creek Community, Structure C Rehabilitation, July 2011 (PDF)
Steele Creek Roadhouse & Community Rehabilitation, July 2012 (PDF)
