Copper Center – historic settlement, originally site of a roadhouse on the bank of the Copper River, along the Valdez-Eagle Trail. Now located along Richardson Highway, 16 miles southeast of Glennallen.
The community of Copper Center is located on the Copper River’s west bank, just north of the Klutina River. It was founded in 1898 as a trading post along the trail from Valdez to...
Adventurer Clyde “Slim” Williams moved to Alaska in 1900. According to his biography, “Alaska Sourdough,” Slim lived in the Copper River Basin in the 1930s, and one fall, while buying supplies at Copper Center,...
