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Smokey Mountain National Park, Newfound Gap

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Friday, July 13, 2012

Frontier Town USA (Palmer, AK)

 

Palmer, Alaska was started during the depression to bring farming to Alaska.  About 203 families were chosen from the northern counties of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.  The thought was that these people, who were destitute because of the Depression, knew how to farm in the cold climate of Alaska.

We visited a typical 1930 colonist home.

 

 Colony House (8 of 8) Colony House (3 of 8) Colony House (5 of 8) Colony House (7 of 8)

Below are the things Ann remembers from her Grandparents and parents homes,

 Colony House (4 of 8)Wranglell-St. Elias NP (4 of 31)

We also visited a Musk Ox farm. The Musk Ox farm was started in 1954 as a project to domesticate the Musk Ox.  I was also a way to provide economic supplement to remote Alaskan communities.  The farm is a non profit project.

Next we head across the Glenn Highway to Wrangle-St. Elias NP and then to Valdez.

Life is good on the Roan Road …

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