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Photo: Dave Bezaire & Susi Havens-Bezaire, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
This gold dredge operated on Chicken Creek from 1959 until 1967, and was used on Pedro Creek outside of Fairbanks. The Pedro Dredge is a National Historic Site and is open to daily tours. It is one of the most complete Alaska gold dredges, an example of the type of equipment used to mine the area's gold deposits.
The F.E. Company Dredge No. 4, also known as the Pedro Dredge and the Chicken Dredge, was originally owned by the Fairbanks Exploration Company, a subsidiary of the United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. (USSR&M). It was built by the Yuba Manufacturing Company in California, and was shipped to Pedro Creek north of Fairbanks, Alaska in 1938. It was assembled there, and operated until 1958.
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It would be a huge missed opportunity if the town named Chicken doesn't have a statue of... a chicken! Just refrain from trying to eat it.