A death plays a part in the creation of Petersville Road
Petersville Road began as short cut to Peters Creek and Cache Creek mining areas The 1929 Ford Model AA dump truck shown in the drawing sits in front of the Trapper Creek Museum, at...
Category: Talkeetna
Talkeetna – historic settlement, city in Susitna Valley, near confluence of Talkeetna, Susitna and Chulitna Rivers
Art show at Wasilla Museum in September – “Ramblings through Mat-Su history”
Featuring drawings and descriptions of historic sites around the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The show will be at the Wasilla Museum and Visitor Center from September 9th through October 7th. Open reception on Friday, September...
Nagley’s Store in Talkeetna – legacy of a frontier merchant
Nagley’s Store in the 1970s when it was the B & K (Barrett & Kennedy) Trading Post Horace Nagley (1875-1966) was one of the first merchants to establish a store in the Susitna Basin....
Parks Highway spurred changes to Talkeetna and the Talkeetna Roadhouse
Talkeetna Roadhouse as it looked in the mid 1970s When I first visited Talkeetna in the early 1970s it was a sleepy little hamlet. The Talkeetna Spur Road had just been paved, but Talkeetna...
Talkeetna and the Alaska Commercial Company’s Susitna-Valdez Creek freighting gamble
Old freighter’s cabin at Talkeetna in 2005 Gold was discovered at Valdez Creek (near the headwaters of the Susitna River) in 1903. The first pack-horse and winter sled routes that supplied the mining...
More old buildings in Talkeetna
Here are a few more photos of old buildings in Talkeetna. See my previous post for a short history of the town. At the corner of First and C Street. Between First and Main ...
Historic Talkeetna in May, before the summer hordes arrive
Talkeetna Roadhouse, built between 1914 and 1917 Here are some photos of historic buildings in Talkeetna. We have been stopping there as part of our job for the past three months, and had a...
1960s Mercedes 1113 fire truck in Talkeetna, Alaska
The things you find in the supposed hinterlands. This is a mid-1960s Mercedes Benz 1113 cab-over fire truck I saw in front of the Fairview Inn at Talkeetna. The model 1113s were called “kurzhaubers,”...
