This site preserves the area of the Russian settlement known as New Archangel's predecessor, established after the first Russian-Tlingit conflict and destroyed in 1802. Trails and interpretation mark a place where colonial ambitions and Tlingit resistance collided before modern Sitka formed farther south.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: dnr.alaska.gov/parks/aspunits/southeast/oldsitkashp.htm