Matanuska Valley Colony
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In 1935, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration created an experimental farming community known as the Matanuska Valley Colony as part of the New Deal resettlement plan. Situated in the Matanuska
View of Matanuska Glacier in 1898, photographed by Walter Curran Mendenhall
Matanuska Valley hay field
Matanuska Valley farm
Oversized vegetables on display at the Alaska State Fair. The fair is currently located on a portion of the Rebarchek farm (see below).
Palmer, Alaska
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Palmer is a city in and the borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States, located 42 miles northeast of Anchorage on the Glenn Highway in the Matanuska Valley. It is the ninth-
Matanuska Valley Colony
…The climate is well-suited for cattle and dairy farming. Currently, the town of Palmer, Alaska, which descended from the Matanuska Valley colonists, is home to many of the children of the settlers. Some of the original structures from the colony…
Palmer depot with a narrow-gauge locomotive
Palmer in the 1940s
Palmer, 1940s
Palmer, 1940s