Matanuska Valley Colony
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matanuska-valley-colony-234-3169532
title:
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 Valley, about 45 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, the colony was settled by 203 families from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. 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
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Farming community in Matanuska Valley, Alaska, U.S.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanuska_Valley_Colony
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2024-03-12T17:11:35Z
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13
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