Editing Livengood, Alaska (section)

==History==
[[Gold]] was discovered in 1914, on Livengood Creek by N.R. Hudson and Jay Livengood.  The village was founded near the Hudson/Livengood claim as a [[mining]] camp during the winter of 1914-1915, when hundreds of people came into the district.<ref name="Ira">{{cite book |last1=Harkey |first1=Ira |title=Pioneer Bush Pilot |date=1991 |publisher=Bantam Books |isbn=0553289195 |page=98}}</ref><ref name="Jim">{{cite book |last1=Rearden |first1=Jim |title=Alaska's First Bush Pilots, 1923-30 |date=2009 |publisher=Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc. |location=Missoula |isbn=9781575101477 |pages=30–31}}</ref>

A [[post office]] was established in 1915 and was discontinued in 1957.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ast2.com/livengood_alaska.htm |title=Livengood Alaska |access-date=May 13, 2014 |archive-date=May 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514133016/http://ast2.com/livengood_alaska.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

A [[construction]] camp was located near Livengood during the construction of the [[Trans-Alaska Pipeline System|Trans-Alaska Pipeline]].<ref>[[Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System#Pipeline camps]]</ref>

Livengood was the last operating location of the antiquated 2600&nbsp;Hz [[telephone]] trunk system. It was switched to the modern system in March 2011.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}