Eagle River Sites

The CCC undertook “construction of a mile-long spur road off the Palmer Highway between Eagle River and Eklutna.”

Glenn Highway, from Anchorage to Matanuska (Palmer): “One of the major road projects in 1935 and 1936 was the completion of the Anchorage to Matanuska Road, or Palmer Highway, which later became part of the Glenn Highway, with funds from the FERA. Begun as a joint project by the ARC and the City of Anchorage in the 1920s, and called the Anchorage Loop or the Anchorage-Eagle River Road the ARC took over its maintenance and began improving and extending it from Anchorage to the communities of Chugiak and Peters Creek in 1933. In 1935, the Matanuska Colony project near...