Nome Alaska: A Tale Of Two Graveyards
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Join me and Steve Phillips as we explore the two graveyards of Nome, Alaska. The first graveyard we visit is either a paupers graveyard or an Eskimo graveyard or both. The second is the main graveyard for the town. The graves date to the founding of Nome around 1900 and later.
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Nome Alaska: A Tale Of Two Graveyards
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Wow. So sad no one looks after these graves. I realize some have no family left to do so, but you would think that some of the people in the town would be proactive to place a fence around it or a plaque as you said. That would be very honorable. Thanks for the eye opener and tour.
Because of the old graveyard being in danger of being eroded the city dug up the old graves and re-interned them in the new graveyard. I did some metal detecting around there about 2008 and didn't find much.
I did a bunch of brush clearing in the old Bluff graveyard (East of Nome) and took a bunch of pictures of the area and sent some to one of the relatives that still lived in Nome.
Fun Fact of The Day: The difference between a cemetery and a graveyard is that usually graveyards are attached/associated to a church, whereas a cemetery is not.
Steve has a wonderful voice. If he did some Nome history videos I would watch.
Duck Landes Except he has a Southern accent, which I like, but it isn't a true Alaskan accent from a lifetime Alaskan.
He sounds kind of like that guy Sam Elliott
Brooks Pearce You got any of that good sarsaparilla?
according to the net, many people died in Nome Alaska from 1905 to 1920 from the Spanish Influenza
I spent a summer in Nome at age 14. It's a desolate, treeless outpost, yet full of history. It's an experience that changed my life. Thanks for the tour.
Just want to take the time to say that your channel has been my favourite for about a whole year now and I just love the content that you put out. I hope to travel America one day
I love videos exploring old graveyards. I have a couple out here, that I plan on doing videos about!
Had to go read-up on Leonhard Seppala and the serum run. Fascinating.
Thx Chigg & Steve.
Hi Chigg, i love your videos! And i think your doing an amazing job Entertaining/Educating poeple with all kinds of stories, relics, Historical places.
And if your ever come to Hungary, i will show you places where you can even find Roman Silver coins, alot of them.
Keep up the Great Work Beau!
I enjoyed this video with the old graves. Your videos have been so informative. Thank you
Great videos Aquachigger, keep em coming! : - )
Thanks for this video i am fascinated by the history to be found in old cemeteries.
Does anyone remember the movie Balto? It was based on that story about the dog sled bringing in the antoxin. It was a movie that my kids loved.
sahia girl yep. you got it. good film.
Lived in Nome a year! Was quite an adventure. Make sure to pick some seaglass while there! Quite awesome stuff.
Steve's voice is soooooo soothing. love his accent. 👍
👏🏻 early clicker!
Love traveling vicariously through you, Beau!
Wow Chigg 770k subs. I remember back when it was 1,500
Feel like ur part of my family. Thanks Uncle Chigg!
I've been to nome also and the cemetery is pretty cool
Looks so peaceful to me.
Wow Alaska, i love it👍
sad they neglect it :( Thanks for sharing Beau!
Reminds me of the movie Balto
I saw the interview after you had just joined Patreon. I started laughing. "Little did I know".....
thank you a few aussie s will never get to see your trips so thanks and landscapes
Very interesting Beau, yeah its sad they do not keep that first graveyard up..
Perhaps the fences were an attempt to keep animals from digging up the graves.
So sad they should keep up on all the graves😦
It wouldn't take much if they put down their coffee and doughnuts for a few hours. I live in a smaller town and they hire everyone from outside to do all the work while the actual town employees spend most of their day sitting in an office watching tv, drinking coffee and downing doughnuts by the dozen.
Great video with wonderful voice guys
When my father was a child he used to go to the local cemetery with his mother or grandmother to care for the graves of our family and they would spend time "topping off" many of the older graves where the ground had sunken from the coffin collapsing. Something you only see in very old cemeteries and in paupers cemeteries where the people were interred before concrete vaults were required or where one couldnt be afforded. I imagine that Alaskan burial ground is both.
That is not so much graves of the poor that is graves of the flu of 1918. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic Balto the sled dog has a statue in central park en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto
GEAUX-PRIUS Cowboy thanks interesting read
Your spot on. The Spanish Flu brought about a lot of bodies that had to be buried all at once. This cemetery is the result.
Fascinating.Not to be morbid but id like to have been able to read a few more gravestones.Life has to be tough there with weather extremes Especially for the poorer people
god bless those people livin the hard ways before we do. ils ons tracé la voie pour nous. remembering the harhs way the use too makes me sad.these day are out of comparison.. hey Ouimette; la france et le quebec aime ce que tu fais. excuse my french
We have a lot of cemeteries like this in Idaho in our older towns like Idaho city and placerville
I live about 1 mile from an old Nike Base. It was one of many that ringed Detroit. Atomic bomb drills in school. Your right, scary times
my father was born in 1916 he was forty when I was born I had him for 47 years one of the greatest conservationists in the u.s. that history isn't as far back as it seems
Unusual to see wooden tombstones any more. The little fences are just decorative.
Great vids like always.
That serum was brought in because there was a diphtheria outbreak. I read a book about his journey many years ago.
To see all those tombs, many people have lived in spite of the hard winters. Here too, the Industry has made its entry, sad....
I read some where back in the 1800's or so they put metal fence around graves to keep the spirits in. It was to keep them from wondering around lost. Things people believed in years ago.It might have been to keep people from walking all over graves or grave robber or family status. IDK thou. They have some very neat fences & statues & monuments in the grave yards I have went in. The older the better.
There's something very Sam Elliot about Beau's friend. Interesting video.
Did you by chance see the last episode of Deadliest Catch where they were talking about Alaska being attacked during WW2 . I had never heard that only heard a bout Pearl Harbor.
Great video
I’m guessing that the empty graves are pre-dug for future occupancy. It is impossible to dig through the frozen ground in winter.
What, if anything, were items that you couldn’t either get there or were priced
crazy that you wish you’d had with you?
What would be some good items for someone coming up there to bring with
them from the lower 49 as trading/barter stock?
Thanks for sharing and really enjoying these Alaska videos...!
In Connecticut you can find graves in a field I know of that are from revolutionary war..
Nice video man!
Great vid Mr Chiggles.
I love those sunglasses by the way. Could you please tell me what they are? Thanks :-)
is it Ricky?
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Why do the oil companies have a hard on for building pipelines through Indian graveyards? See #nodapl
just goes to show how the erosion can affect even graves, i bet they were well inland when they were buried .
Those graves are that old that there would probably be nothing left to wash away anyway!
Balto the sled dog is in a museum in Cleveland.
Pretty decent sized ol skull orchard😎
they are buried without a vault the wood decays and the dirt caves in.
*Talks about something super interesting (the early warning nuke sensor towers), places head squarely in line of site.
is he talking about Balto?
The second graveyard looks like some of the old ones here in Nv. Families put fences around a lot of the graves, not sure why. Maybe to mark a family plot? They don't do that so much today, wonder why. I think the more "modern" graveyards won't allow it. Some won't even let you put anything growing on a grave site, really sad.
Better to go to the house of mourning than the house of feasting-
For that is the end of all men, and the living may lay it to heart.
if they're buried over permafrost, would the bodies decay?
You should visit Sam bass grave in round rock Texas
As with life and so in death if you are poor being ignored is the way of things, What a sad ending for so many poor around the world.
saludos ✌✌
Some of those graves look exhumed. They may have had gold in their pockets.
OMG this was a great video. I like almost all your vids but especially when you teach about history. This inspired me to look up the Iditarod. Here is a link to a great retelling of the story. www.history.com/news/the-sled-dog-relay-that-inspired-the-iditarod
Thanks again for the time and effort you put into your videos.
The "Barrier-Thingy" around the first Grave, from the Graveyard-II in Nome, appears to being the Framework of an old Crabbing Cage...
Maybe an indication that this Deceased Person (and all the others, with the same Grave Enclosures) of just How they perished...
Just a thought...???
like cows muskox probably sratch themselves on the headstones making them lean over. hense the cage around them
Unfortunately there are forgotten cemeteries like this all over the US. Perpetual care takes somebody's money. Who is gonna donate? Anybody? I will be cremated.
Those cylinder style grave markers are extremely common in the midwest for older (1800s) graves.
The upscale ones are carved to resemble logs.
i heard about the guy on the dogsled through mysteries at the mueseum
those head stones might be rely old the weather removes the names
This was unsettling for me.
good
my great great grandmother is under a cylinder head stone in Dallas Oregon.
Robert Martin my family doesnt know where our great great grandmothers grave is...
all of my family have been buried in the USA for over 400 years,and on my mothers side since time began
We may look at this as sad and abandoned but it is really hard to keep anything like that up in Alaska. The weather is very harsh in the winter, the permafrost keeps everything a up-heaved mess, and you can't put cement bunkers around the caskets as you can in the lower 48, so the graves sink, as the ground is too frozen to dig. As in any harsh climate the folks do what they can. Maybe they would be better served cremating the remains like the Japanese and having mausoleums where they visit the cremains?!
I saw a show a few years back that was all about the
man and his dog team that went to get the medicine...
Somewhere there is a good sized statue of a sled dog
commemorating this.
I don’t remember where it’s at though, sorry...
ask him about the movie THE FOURTH KIND, IS IT TRUE?
while I'm sure that no one in those graves cares , you can be sure that many Eskimos wish no one ever goes there
go to Lithuania Rivers!
This is so sad!!
such a shame over that graveyard---there could be any of our realtives buried that that genelogy would love to know about -----someone needs to do something even if its to place a rock at each grave.
yeah, they're trying to reclaim land silently....over top of the graves..w/o moving them or marking them.
what a shame about the graveyard!! they should definitely be taken care of by the local government or AT THE LEAST,,, have them recorded ...take photos and archive them , put them online ...it doesn't take much and most of the time you can find volunteers that will help, come on people whoever is in charge should be ashamed!
Chigg. does your wife join you on these trips?
7.42 ufo sighted!
if there is permafrost there, those people haven't decomposed.
We can save them Jim!
Hey, I know that story. I watched Balto.
I think I saw Ricky.
Know what I mean, Vern?
Oh hell. when I'm dead there is a good chance I won't give a shit what you do with my stinking carcas. I'll be dead i wont know any diffrent. If i had to decide, id say feed me to the fish in the Shenandoah, it's a place i find both relaxing and interesting.
It was a diphtheria outbreak, lots of kids diedid... :-(
Nome seems a desolate place. I've heard parts of Alaska are beautiful. Nome doesn't appear that way. After the gold rush id have left too.
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wao
Lol i live in Nome
Beau if and when you go to Russia. You will see the same grave set up.
Looks like the poor people had the best view anyways.
so sad looking. an unkempt cemetery. ...