What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: in Bluestone River basin, at junction of Alder Creek and Gold Run, 15 mi. SE of Teller, Seward Peninsula High.
"Site of a mining camp which was the center of the Bluestone gold mining region. The Bluestone region was staked in the stampedes of 1899, although gold was not found here until 1900 (Brooks, 1901, p. 131). A post office was established here in 1902 and was discontinued in 1909 (Ricks, 1965, p. 62). In 1907 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported that Sullivan ""has a summer population of about 50, a post office, and several roadhouses, and is connected with Teller and a landing at the mouth of Tisuk Creek by a regular line of stages"" (Collier and others, 1908, p. 59)."
Sullivanappears 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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