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View of Matanuska Glacier in 1898, photographed by Walter Curran Mendenhall The Wireck Barn is located at the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer, situated among other historic structures in a "Colony Village". The Matanuska Colony was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal plan to help move the United States out of the Great Depression. It ...
Palmer is a city in and the borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States, located 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Anchorage on the Glenn Highway in the Matanuska Valley. [3] It is the ninth-largest city in Alaska , and forms part of the Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Matanuska-Susitna Valley (/ m æ t ə ˈ n uː s k ə s uː ˈ s ɪ t n ə /; known locally as the Mat-Su or The Valley) is an area in Southcentral Alaska south of the Alaska Range about 35 miles (56 km) north of Anchorage, Alaska. [1] It is known for the world record sized cabbages and other vegetables displayed annually in Palmer at the ...
The Matanuska Colony Community Center, also Palmer Historic District, is a cluster of buildings near the center of Palmer, Alaska that were the centerpiece of the Depression-era Matanuska Valley Colony. This federal rural resettlement program was intended to give needy families resources and land to improve their condition.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough (often referred to as the Mat-Su Borough) is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its borough seat is Palmer, and the largest community is the census-designated place of Knik-Fairview. As of the 2020 census, the borough's population was 107,801. [3]
Sutton-Alpine is located in southeastern Matanuska-Susitna Borough at (61.712473, -148.885625), [5] 52–72 miles (84–116 km) northeast of Anchorage along the Glenn Highway It sits along Alaska Route 1 , the Glenn Highway, between Buffalo Soapstone to the west and Chickaloon to the east.
The mining camp of Petersville, Alaska served as the area Post Office for several years in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Two areas have been set aside for recreational gold mining, the North and South units of the Petersville State Recreation Mining Areas. Many smaller one-man and family placer mining operations continue today.
Alaska: Borough: Matanuska-Susitna: ... In 1918, a spur was constructed to a coal mine in the area. Sunshine Depot at Mile 215.3 was established in 1918, but was ...