Charlie Adams (~1830 - 1930)

Charlie Adams and his wife Annie were from Alaska and before the gold rush were at the fish camp at the mouth of the Klondike River. When the First Nation people of that area were settled at Moosehide, the Adams family moved to the mouth of the Twelvemile River, the Chandindu, downriver from Dawson. "Twelve Mile" Charlie and Annie had eight children and many of them stayed and raised families at Twelve Mile. The population was twenty-five in 1902/03. When the Twelve Mile Power Plant was built at the headwaters in 1906, the Twelvemile became a travel route for the construction workers and Ellen Taylor open a coffee shop and roadhouse. Clora Mason was living at Twelve Mile with her family in 1957 when the community was flooded in spring breakup. Everything was swept away by the river.((Helene Dobrowolsky, //Hammerstones: A History of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in.// Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, 2003: 71-72.))