What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: site of Indian village, on right bank of Koyukuk River, opposite mouth of Kanuti River
"This was once one of the largest Koyukuk Indian villages on the river. It was named ""Moses Village"" for the Indian chief ""Moses"", by prospectors about 1897. Archdeacon Stuck (1917, p. 328) wrote ""a road-house and a store turned it from 'Moses Village' to 'Arctic City' when the mail trail from Tanana reached the Koyukuk at that point, but store and road-house and Indian are alike gone some twelve miles up (to Allakaket)."""
Arctic Cityappears in the U.S. Geological Survey's place-name archive as a historical populated place — a settlement that once carried a name and no longer does. Our editors are verifying its full story against census records, newspaper archives, and county histories; this record will grow as sources are confirmed.
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