This low hill was the site of Tlingit fortifications, Russian colonial buildings and the 1867 transfer ceremony in which Alaska passed from Russia to the United States. A short public climb reaches the monument and views over Sitka Sound.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: dnr.alaska.gov/parks/aspunits/southeast/baranofcastleshs.htm