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The history of settlement in Chugiak-Eagle River during the past century has been heavily influenced by non-local entities, principally the federal government. The federal government brought the first permanent settlement to the area with the construction and operation of the Alaska Railroad. Subsequently, it improved access by constructing the first highway through the area, and by funding later highway upgrades.
Throughout this century, Eklutna area Natives strove to retain the land upon which they depended.
Like other Alaska Native groups, they sought resolution of their land claims with the federal government. These claims had been recognized by the Organic Act of 1884 and later court cases.
At various times during the first third of this century, the Department of the Interior set aside several hundred thousand acres of land in the upper Cook Inlet area, including Eklutna, pending a permanent resolution of withdrawals for reservations. The establishment of reservations, however, did not receive much support. Although the resolution of Native land claims did not occur until much later, portions of the withdrawn lands were released for other uses.
After the 1919 Alaska Homestead Law, the Chugiak-Eagle River area saw a slow start to homesteading due to the difficult requirements. A railroad employee filed the first homestead at Lower Fire Lake in 1924. In 1945, a lodge was established to cater to recreation, particularly fishing and socializing with young soldiers from the nearby Fort Richardson. Fire lake lodge received upwards of 5 different owners of the land and the area, slowly dwindling down to a small church at Upper Fire Lake.
To get the coordinates to the final cache, please give the year the last area that was, originally, owned/aquired by the Fire Lake Lodge, was sold to the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility for a new sewer main.
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