Palmer History Links
Alaska Far Away Introduction Videos
Documentary DVD available for purchase at the Colony House Museum
Alaska’s Matanuska Colony Book – National Park Service
Alaska’s Matanuska Colony Teaching Plan – National Parks Service
Alaska Pioneer Newspaper – Alaska Film Archives
Alaska Railroad Train & Palmer Depot
ARRC Engineers Map 1936 US Geological Survey
Colonist Harold Johnson Letter 1936 – PHS Collection
Families of the Matanuska Valley Project
Farming in the 49th (1979) – Alaska Film Archives
Frontier Farmers of Alaska 1940’s
Matanuska, Alaska – National Archives Video Collection
Matanuska Colony 1945-1955 – Alaska Film Archives
Matanuska Colony by Kirk Stone – US Dept. of Interior Bureau of Land Management 1950
Matanuska Colony Barns – Northern Lights Media
Matanuska Colony Buildings in Palmer – Alaska Film Archives
Matanuska Colony Farmers Draw for Horses – Alaska Film Archives
Matanuska Colony Farmer Working Field with Horses – Alaska Film Archives
Matanuska Valley Colony Hospital – Alaska Film Archives
Matanuska Valley Colony Hospital continued
Matanuska Colony Houses & Tents – Alaska Film Archives
Matanuska Colony Tents at Palmer – Alaska Film Archives
Matanuska Colony Trading Post at Palmer – Alaska Film Archives
Matanuska Colony Trading Post at Palmer continued
Matanuska Valley Colony – About the Project
Matanuska Dairy – National Parks Service
Matanuska Depot in the Early ’30’s – Alaska Film Archives
Matanuska Sawmill – Alaska Film Archives
Palmer Alaska Historic Compilation – Alaska Film Archives
Palmer and the Matanuska Valley, Alaska 1930’s – Alaska Film Archives
Palmer City Center May 1936
Snowy Travel in Palmer 1950s – Alaska Film Archives
The 1935 Matanuska Colony Project – Helen Hegener
The Flying Dentist of Alaska – Far North Films
Where the River Matanuska Flows
1935 Palmer Daily News – PHS Collection
1936 Revised Tract List – PHS Collection
1937 ARRC Tract Map – PHS Collection
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