Men of the Hill

This hill was known as Noow Tlein, Novoarkhangel'sk, and Castle Hill, and it was a place where people worked, fought, and lived. Andrew P. Johnson, a prominent member of the Kiks.ádi clan and a child of the Kaagwaantaan clan, said that Shee Atiká referred only to the Indian village and recalled that Baranov Hill had been an island, with a sandbar appearing between the round hill and the point at low tide and water covering it at high tide; his people called that place Noow Tlein. Kiril Timofeevich Khlebnikov, assistant chief manager of the Russian American colonies and manager at Novoarkhangel'sk between 1817 and 1832, described the Novoarkhangel'sk fortress as having three towers, a battery of 30 cannons, a two-storied building used by the chief manager, barracks for 40 workers, and warehouses, barracks, and other quarters on the rocky slope that formed the middle fortress. Fred Wildon Fickett, a U.S. Signal Corps private stationed in Sitka from 1882 to 1884, found Sitka pleasant and worked in the Old Russian Governor's palace, where he had two large rooms that he considered better than any others in town.

Sitka, Alaska · United States