| 词条 | Rogers-Post Site |
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| nrhp_type = | image = Rogers-Post Memorial at Barrow, Alaska.jpg | caption = The granite memorial | location = Near Walakpa River mouth, about {{convert|11|mi|km}} southwest of Barrow | nearest_city= Barrow, Alaska | coordinates = {{coord|71.15412|-157.064|format=dms|display=inline,title,source:ProprioMeOW}} | locmapin = Alaska | area = {{convert|0.5|acre|ha}} | built =1935 | architect= Will Rogers Memorial; Jesse Stubbs | architecture= | added = April 22, 1980 | governing_body = Bureau of Land Management | refnum=80004564[1] | designated_other1 = Alaska Heritage Resources Survey | designated_other1_name = Alaska Heritage Resources Survey | designated_other1_date = December 23, 1971 | designated_other1_color = #A8EDEF | designated_other1_abbr = AHRS | designated_other1_number = BAR-005 | designated_other1_num_position = bottom }} The Rogers-Post Site, located on the North Slope of the U.S. state of Alaska, is the location of a plane crash that killed humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post on August 15, 1935, during an aerial tour of Alaska. It is about {{convert|11|mi|km}} southwest of Barrow, on the north side of Walakpa Bay near the mouth of the Walakpa River. The flight was described by the AP [2] as prelude to a planned Trans-Siberian flight to Moscow. The pair were flying from Fairbanks to Barrow when they encountered fog and low visibility. Locating a hole in the fog at Walakpa Bay, they landed. They spent some time with a small party of Alaska Natives and received directions for the short distance remaining to Barrow. They were barely airborne, around {{convert|50|ft|m|0}}, when the motor failed. The aircraft plummeted into the lagoon and overturned. It was the first fatal air accident Barrow had known. The first monument at the site was dedicated three years after the crash and financed through nationwide public subscription. It was designed in Oklahoma, home of both Rogers and Post, and built from poured concrete. The design was essentially two cubes, the smaller atop the larger, with a pink granite memorial marker quarried near the Rogers family home in Claremore, Oklahoma. The elaborate dedication ceremonies involved a four-way CBS radio broadcast from Barrow, the United States Capitol, the Oklahoma State Capitol, and the Texas State Capitol. The second monument, built 15 years later, is a concrete obelisk consisting of four diminishing rectangular blocks, and is more slender and almost 10 feet (3 m) taller than the first monument. It was built by then 72-year-old Jesse Stubbs (November 30, 1879 – March 14, 1960), who claimed to be a childhood friend of Rogers and arrived in Anchorage in summer 1953 intending to walk from there to Barrow, only getting as far as Fairbanks where he, and his dog Quacco, caught a plane flight for the remainder of the journey. The Stubbs monument memorializes not only Rogers and Post, but also the Alaskan veterans of World War II. Both monuments overlook the lagoon crash site. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] See also
References1. ^1 {{NRISref|2008a}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation/rps.htm|title=Rogers-Post Site--Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary|publisher=National Park Service}} External links
6 : Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska|Geography of North Slope Borough, Alaska|Monuments and memorials in Alaska|Concrete sculptures in the United States|1935 sculptures|National Register of Historic Places in North Slope Borough, Alaska |
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