Harding hammered the golden spike into a bridge in Nenana now known as the Mears Memorial Bridge. The “ambitious” single-span trestle bridge over the Tanana River closed the Alaska Railroad ...

the city of Anchorage presented him with the golden spike in appreciation of his work. He sent the spike back from Seattle for the Harding event in Nenana, a community in interior Alaska.

Harding drove the final railroad spike at the 1923 ceremony marking the completion of the Alaska ... Nenana collaborated with the Anchorage Museum and other private donors to purchase the golden ...