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The Bailey Colony Farm, also known as the Estelle Farm, is a historic Matanuska Colony farmstead that dates from 1935. It is located along the
Glenn Highway The Glenn Highway (part of Alaska Route 1) is a highway in the U.S. state of Alaska, extending from Anchorage near Merrill Field to Glennallen on the Richardson Highway. The Tok Cut-Off is often considered part of the Glenn Highway, for a tota ...
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Palmer, Alaska Palmer (Ahtna: ''Nił'etse'it'aade'' or ''Nuutah''; Dena'ina: ''Denal'i Kena'') is a city in and the borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States, located northeast of Anchorage on the Glenn Highway in the Matanuska Va ...
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Matanuska-Susitna Borough Matanuska-Susitna Borough (often referred to as the Mat-Su Borough) is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. Its county seat is Palmer, and the largest community is the census-designated place of Knik-Fairview. The borough is part of ...
. It was part of a New Deal program opening farms in Alaska as part of assisting overpopulated rural areas of the lower 48 states of the US, in a program conceived of by FERA architect David Williams. The Bailey Colony Farm was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1991. The listing included two
contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
. and It was the home of Ferber and Ruth Bailey and their children, who were colonists from Wisconsin. The house is a -story building with a gambrel roof; the barn is a log and frame built building also with a gambrel roof. Both were built in 1935. The barn was moved about 150 feet in the 1940s to its present location, when the Glenn Highway was widened.


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Matanuska Valley Colony 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, ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Matanuska-Susitna Bor ...


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Buildings and structures completed in 1935 Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska 1935 establishments in Alaska {{MatanuskaSusitnaAK-geo-stub