The mine …after a hike up the hill.

In 1935, President Roosevelt as part of the New Deal had one hundred projects to relocate people to provide jobs. Palmer, Alaska was one of these places…204 families from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan were brought there to start a farming area. Seventy-five years later the farms and some of the houses and bars are still there. It was called the Colony, we visited a Colony house, now a museum, heard a Colony grandkid tell about her life on a colony farm. It was very interesting, we also saw present day farms and saw many colony barns. While in Palmer we also drove up to Hatcher pass and visited a former gold mine, now a ghost town, and State Park. One Colony farm we visited now raises Musk Ox.