Residential Neighborhoods

The Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Co. provided about seventy-five 3- and 4-bedroom cottages in neighborhoods for families of skilled workers and supervisors.  Rents were $10 to $15 per month.  Painted red with green trim, the homes were supplied with water, sewer, steam heat, and electricity.   Families cooked on coal-burning, cast iron stoves, and many cottages had gardens.  There were three “subdivisions” in Treadwell:  Treadwell Heights, the Pines, and Campbell Hill.  The area above the 300-Stamp Mill that extended to the cave-in was Treadwell Heights.  Power poles, pipes, fire hydrants and even an occasional cast iron bathtub can be spotted amid the second-growth alder, cottonwood, spruce, and hemlock.