Chitina – historic settlement at the end of the Edgerton Cut-off. 67 miles southeast of Glennallen. Originally a construction camp for Copper River and Northwestern Railway, now a recreation destination.
Mines in the Wrangell Mountains, 65 miles east of Chitina and only a few miles south of McCarthy, were world-class copper producers during the early 1900s. However, by the 1930s the copper reserves were...
The CR&NW messhall and bunkhouse in Chitina in the 1980s The two buildings shown in the drawing are in Chitina. They were built as a messhall and bunkhouse for the Copper River...
I came across this while going through a box of drawings. I bought it at a rummage sale years ago for a few dollars. The artist is Olive Malstrom Carl, who was a well-know...
