Nenana had an ice bridge for crossing the Tanana River in the winter and a ferry for summer crossing before the current Veterans
Bridge was built. The railroad bridge went in before the highway bridge. Don't remember seeing any photos or hearing of a wooden bridge in the 13 years we lived in Nenana.
It often confuses tourists that Nenana and Tanana are pronounced so differently. Nenana rhymes with banana and that Tanana is Tan A Naw. Both the River and the villages. I have lived in both villages, Tanana for two years and Nenana for the 13. Nenana was established as a barge port, the Native village, Togheteli(sp), was originally across the river on the much higher ground. Tanana, at the mouth where it joins the Yukon River, has been a Native village since people first inhabited the area.
