Lodge 1-Copper Center
Unknown
Copper Center Lodge
Image shows the front of the Copper Center Lodge as it appeared about 1947 when the Children’s home was in the midst of moving their operation from Valdez to Lazy Mountain. The lodge would have been a logical stop for them on the highway between the two communities. A car is parked in front of the building. Fire destroyed the lodge in 2012.
Copper Center, Alaska
Lodge 2-Little Susitna
Unknown
Two men and a pickup truck stand in front of the Little Susitna Lodge in 1960
Image is of a portion of a large white building, identified as the Little Susitna Lodge, with two men standing in front. The man on the left is identified as Bill Betts. A pickup truck is partially visible in front as well. A “Hamm’s Beer” sign is evident on the building wall. This establishment, on the road to numerous gold mines in the mountains nearby, had a history of burning down several times and being re-built to operate under various business names including “Little Su Roadhouse”, “Fishhook Inn”, “Little Susitna Lodge” and “Mother Load Lodge”. It burned again April 17, 2015.
Little Susitna Valley North of Palmer, Alaska
Lodge 3-Tazlina
Hitchen
The image shows Tazlina Lodge as it appeared in 1948.
This photo shows a log building in near middle ground, identified as the Tazlina Lodge, located on the shore of Tazlina Lake at approximately mile 156 on the Glenn Highway. A rather modern automobile for the day is parked near the left end of the lodge in near middle ground. A smaller log building is partially visible at extreme left. A partial view of the lake is visible between the buildings and past several mature spruce trees. Numerous other spruce trees are apparent behind and to the right of the lodge. The foreground is largely composed of a vacant graveled area. A woman is visible standing to the left and behind the car.
Tazlina, Alaska
Roadhouse 1
Unknown
A log roadhouse in 1935 located at the future site of the city of Palmer, Alaska
Image is of a log roadhouse that was one of the few buildings at the site chosen as the central location for the Matanuska Colony Project and future town of Palmer.
Palmer, Alaska
Roadhouse 2
Ruth DeArmond
Jim Felton operated the roadhouse, built by the previous homesteader, and the general store and post office prior to the arrival of the Matanuska Colony. This photo is identified as having been taken in 1936. The post office was transferred to a new building in the Community Center in 1936. Since this photo shows the Post Office sign removed from the front of the store, it is assumed the picture was taken in late 1936.
This photo features Jim Felton's log roadhouse and his general store in foreground across mid-image. In immediate foreground a gravel road lies diagonally from center right to lower left. A grass strip lies parallel to the road at left. A post and wire fence with a picket gate parallels the far edge of the grass, beyond which lies the log lodge. At an estimated approximately sixty feet long, the single-story structure appears to be of three sections under one roof with its door in the center facing the street. Two chimneys emerge from the planked roof, one near each end. Just past the end of the roadhouse to the right is the more modern frame-constructed store, turned with its white-painted south wall facing the camera and its east end entrance door and windows in shade.
Palmer, Alaska
