History
Old Sitka Site preserves the location of Redoubt St. Archangel Michael, an early Russian-American Company settlement and the first non-Native settlement on Baranof Island. Alexander Baranov negotiated with the local Tlingit in 1779 for a place to establish an outpost, and a permanent post with log buildings and a palisade was erected at Starrigavan Bay in 1799. Tlingit forces destroyed it in 1802, and after returning in 1804 and fighting the Battle of Sitka, the Russians established their lasting base at Castle Hill instead. Later buildings, an agricultural station, and twentieth-century excavations added to the site's record, which was recognized nationally in 1962 and protected as a state park in 1966.
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Sitka, Alaska · United States
