The "Three Lucky Swedes," Jafet Lindbert, Erik Lindbolm and John Bryneston, discoverd gold in 1898, at Anvil Creek, just above the present day town of Nome. At that time it was an uninhabited area in a territory that was uncharted and little known.
It took months for word to reach the outside world of the fabulous gold strike that had been made, but when it did, thousands of men came from the United States, Canada, Russia, and even Europe. By 1900, two thirds of all white men in the Alaska Territory could be found here, and Nome was for a short time the largest city in the territory.
These statues stand in a Anvil City Square, beside the Gold Pan Monument and in front of St. Joseph's Church.
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