The Raymond Rebarchek Colony Farm is a historic farm property on Rebarchek Avenue in
Palmer, Alaska
Palmer is a city in and the county seat, borough seat of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States, located northeast of Anchorage on the Glenn Highway in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Matanuska Valley. It is the List of cities in A ...
. It consists of a tract of land granted to Raymond Rebarchek in a 1935 land lottery organized by the
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 ...
, a Depression-era agricultural colony project.
The property was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1978.
At that time, the farm complex included ten buildings, including Rebarcheck's original log house (the first built in the colony), a dairy barn, a well house, a greenhouse, and a chicken house.
[ Only the original farmhouse, silo, and milking parlor are still standing today. The ]Alaska State Fair
The Alaska State Fair is an annual state fair held in Palmer, Alaska, United States. The fairgrounds are located approximately one hour north of Anchorage and draw visitors from the entire Municipality of Anchorage and beyond for the popular 1 ...
purchased the property in 2002
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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
Buildings and structures completed in 1937
Buildings and structures in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
1937 establishments in Alaska
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