Industry
Near Port Graham, Alaska, Coal Village Site preserves the remains of a Russian American Company coal mining settlement founded in 1855 during Russian Alaska. Also known as Coal Cove, it operated as an open-pit mine until 1860, when fire destroyed its main steam engine. The settlement had briefly grown into the third largest in Russian Alaska, but the loss of that machinery contributed to its decline and abandonment in 1865. Even after the area became overgrown, visible foundations, a railway, scattered artifacts, and a refuse midden continued to preserve evidence of this short-lived yet important Russian-era industrial community.
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Port Graham, Alaska · United States