Category: Copper Center

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 old "Chapel on the Hill" in Copper Center was built in 1943. It was moved in 2019to a site along the Old Richardson Highway near the traditional Copper Center cemetery.

Copper Center church is a reminder of early missionary efforts in Copper River Valley

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...

Slim Williams and his lead dog, Rembrandt beside their sled in Northern British Columbia in Spring of 1933.

Slim Williams: Alaska’s mushing highway ambassador to the Lower 48 in 1932-33

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,...