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.[1] Situated in the Matanuska Valley, about 45 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, the colony was settled by 203 families from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.[2] The colony project cost about $5,000,000 and, after five years, over half of the original colonists had left the valley. By 1965, only 20 of the first families were still farming the valley.[3]
- ^ "Last of adult Matnuska Valley colonists dies at 101". Anchorage Daily News. March 22, 2013. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
- ^ Hulley, Clarence C. (October 1949). "A Historical Survey of the Matanuska Valley Settlement in Alaska". The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 40 (4): 327–340. JSTOR 40486854.
- ^ Lundberg, Murray. "The Matanuska Colony: The New Deal in Alaska". ExploreNorth. Retrieved September 21, 2013.