Ester, Alaska

• Homer's Best Bets: July 29, 20120
  

  One posh ride Doug White, left, and Mary White, right, stand by their 1923 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost last week.

• Angry, Young & Poor 2010
  

  Ester, AK 99725 Ester Community Park 5mi. Parks Highway Turn at the Ester Volunteer Fire-station and you're there! PLEASE, CARPOOL! cost: $0 + *FREE*FREE*FREE*FREE*FREE*FREE* THIS YEAR THERE'S MORE AWESOME THAN EVER: -Fun! -Art! -Music from Thought Trade, Jesse Hobbs, Caressa, 58 Roadsigns, Work, Daninextautumn, Good Daze, Phineas Gauge, Not Enough ...

• Looking back in Fairbanks - July 7
  

  25 YEARS AGO July 7, 1985 - A grand jury investigating a state office lease in Fairbanks issued a 69-page report early last week, which - among other things - said Bill Sheffield was unfit to be Alaska's governor.

• Angry, Young & Poor 2010
  

  Ester, AK 99725 Ester Community Park! 5mi Parks Highway, turn right at the Ester Volunteer Fire-station and you're there! cost: $0 + *FREE*FREE*FREE*FREE*FREE*FREE* THIS YEAR THERE'S MORE AWESOME THAN EVER: -Fun! -Art! -Music from Thought Trade, Ba'Cuntry Bros., Caressa, 58 Roadsigns, Work, Good Daze, Phineas Gauge, Not Enough Flannel, Isaac 'n' ...

• Fire destroys Chena Ridge home
  

  A Chena Ridge home filled with a lifetime collection of artwork, books, tools, family mementos and memories went up in fire Thursday.

City Description

Ester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the 'Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 1,978 at the 2007 census. While the village is often described as a "bedroom community" of Fairbanks, its inhabitants take exception to this description, and have a strong sense of community. Ester was originally a gold mining camp on Ester Creek, with the first claim staked in February 1903 by Latham A. Jones. Jones worked with the Eagle Mining Company, the biggest claimholder on Glen Gulch in the Rampart mining district, but it was an independent miner, John "Jack" Mihalcik, a Czechoslovakian immigrant born in 1866, who was the first person to actually discover gold on Ester Creek. Mihalcik staked his claim in November 1903 but the news of the discovery of gold did not become public until the following February. By 1907, Ester City had a population of around 200 people, with a thriving mining industry. A social hall was completed in 1907, and was well known throughout the mining district for its dance floor. The hall was used for religious services as well as dances, movies, card games, parties,

City Contained By:

• Alaska
• Fairbanks North Star Borough
• United States of America

City Contains:

• Ester Camp Historic District

Timezones:

• Alaska Time Zone

Size:

• 167.572230739 km squared

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