[2] Bennett is also a stop on the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad during the summer months.

Bennett was built during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897–1899 at the end of the White Pass and Chilkoot Trails from the nearby ports of Skagway and Dyea in Alaska.

This led the entire economy of Bennett, based on stampeders and river travelers, to collapse.

[3] One of the establishments in Bennett was the Arctic Hotel, a combination saloon, restaurant, and hotel[4] set up by Friedrich "Fred" Trump (grandfather of Donald Trump) and Ernest Levin.

[3] The establishment included a brothel,[4][5][6] a portrayal that Donald Trump said was "totally false".