Biography - Victor Clar Spaulding

Born at Amherst, Massachusetts, November 18, 1867, Spaulding came north in 1897 and spent some time at Dawson and Atlin. In 1906 he was mining at Yankee Basin, north of Juneau. In June, 1908, Spaulding and Charles Wylie located several lode claims on what they called Treasury Hill, some four miles north of Auke Bay. They built a trail, now known as the Spaulding Trail, to the claims and did development work there. The Spaulding Trail leaves the highway at Mile 13. In 1916 Spaulding married Miss Dora Waydelich at Juneau and thereafter made his home on the old Waydelich homestead at Auke Bay. He died at Juneau on August 13, 1937.

Spaulding Point - in Auke Bay at the mouth of Waydelich Creek, near Mile 13 on Glacier Highway. Named for Victor Clar Spaulding, who made his home in that vicinity for many years.

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