• Nome Alaska Vintage Retro Unisex Heavy Crewneck Sweatshirt, White, Black Logo, Merlin Classics
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Nome Alaska Vintage Retro Unisex Heavy Crewneck Sweatshirt - Black Logo

Nome Alaska Vintage Retro Unisex Heavy Crewneck Sweatshirt - Black Logo

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The Nome heavy crewneck, for the town that is the finish line of the Iditarod. A classic 50/50 fleece sweatshirt with the Nome vintage retro logo on the chest in black: the plain, durable one.

Choose this crewneck for durability and price: classic fit, ribbed collar and cuffs, a fleece that shrugs off years of washing. It is the Nome sweatshirt to buy in twos, one for home and one for the person who grew up there, and it ships free in the U.S.

Unisex heavy crewneck sweatshirt in medium-heavy fleece for warmth and durability. Classic fit with ribbed collar, cuffs & waistband, double-needle seams, and a tear-away label. DTG print. Standard 8.0 oz 50% cotton/50% polyester; Heather Sport 60/40. White may appear off-white; Orange hue may vary.

The Three Lucky Swedes found gold at Anvil Creek on September 22, 1898, the beach itself turned out to be gold in 1899, and a tent city of ten thousand or more rose on the Bering Sea; Wyatt Earp ran the Dexter Saloon from 1899 to 1901 and the city incorporated in 1901. In the serum run of 1925 twenty mushers relayed diphtheria antitoxin 700 miles in 127 hours to save the town.

Every March since 1973 the Iditarod has ended under the Burled Arch on Front Street, and the 1901 St. Joseph’s Church survived the 1913 storm and the 1934 fire that took the rest of gold-rush Nome. Russia lies 161 miles across the Bering Strait. There is no place like Nome, and it is the mark on this piece.


QUICK FACTS — NOME AK HEAVY CREWNECK SWEATSHIRT

Town: Nome, Alaska

Founded: Gold strike 1898; incorporated 1901

Known for: Finish line of the Iditarod since 1973; the 1898 gold rush at Anvil Creek; the 1925 serum run; 161 miles from Russia

Art: Nome vintage retro logo, black (printed)

Blank: Unisex heavy crewneck sweatshirt, classic fit

Fabric: 8.0 oz 50% cotton / 50% polyester; Heather Sport 60/40

Details: Ribbed collar, cuffs and waistband; double-needle seams; tear-away label; DTG print

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Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

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Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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The Iñupiat were here first, and they are here still. The coast around Sitŋasuaq — the Iñupiaq name for the Nome area — had been fished and hunted for centuries before any prospector arrived, part of a network of Seward Peninsula communities living by salmon, seal, walrus, and caribou. Roughly half of Nome’s people today are Alaska Native, and the town remains a hub for the surrounding Iñupiat villages of the region. Whatever gold built here, the deeper story of this coast is continuity — a homeland that long predates the stampede and outlasts it.

Front Street collected characters. Wyatt Earp — the Tombstone lawman — arrived in 1899 and ran the Dexter Saloon for two years as a businessman rather than a marshal; biographers estimate he left Nome with about $80,000, more than his lawman years ever paid him. The rush also drew a subtler kind of prospector: in 1900, political boss Alexander McKenzie and federal judge Arthur H. Noyes worked a scheme to seize the richest claims — including the Swedes’ — through the court itself, until a federal appeals panel shut it down and jailed McKenzie. Rex Beach turned the affair into his 1906 novel The Spoilers. Nome incorporated as a city on April 9, 1901; storms and fires — the worst in 1913 and 1934 — later took most of the original gold-rush buildings, though St. Joseph’s Church of 1901 still stands.

Why People Visit Nome Alaska

Nome combines gold-rush history, sled-dog tradition, Bering Strait geography, and open tundra in a way no other town can. Visitors come for race week in March, for the beach where the last great American gold rush ended, for muskox and wildflowers in the long summer light, for the aurora, and for the plain fact that the road runs out here. Remote, resilient, unforgettable.

Nome Alaska Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring the distressed bear motif and 1959 Alaska statehood year