A gold nugget from Porcupine Creek worth $1500 will be raffled off as part of the festival.

A spontaneous visit this summer to Porcupine’s only remaining gold mine sparked the idea for a celebration of gold rush in the region in Haines, which starts on Oct. 5.

“I visited Mark Sebens mine this summer. Once I got back, I started going through some history of Porcupine Creek and Porcupine village, and that’s when I realized…