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The Kodiak History Museum, [1] [4] until 2019 known as the Baranov Museum, [1] is a history museum at 101 East Marine Way in Kodiak, Alaska.It is located in a National Historic Landmark building known as the Russian-American Magazin [] and the Erskine House, which also houses the office of the Kodiak Historical Society.
The Alaska State Museum is a museum in Juneau, Alaska, United States. The museum's collections include cultural materials from the people of the Northwest Coast (Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian), the Athabascan cultures of Interior Alaska, the Inupiaq of the north coast, and the Yup'ik of the southwest of Alaska, the Alutiiq people of Prince ...
In 1867, site of Russian flag lowering and American flag raising marking the transfer of Alaska to the U.S.; in 1959, after Alaska admitted as 49th state, site of first official raising of 49-star U.S. flag; also known as Castle Hill and Baranof Castle. 5: Anangula Site: Anangula Site
The hill, providing a commanding view over the city, is the historical site of Tlingit and Russian forts and the location where Russian Alaska was formally handed over to the United States in 1867. It is also where the 49-star United States flag was first flown after Alaska became a state in 1959.
This list of museums in Alaska is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state. ... Alaska officially became a state 92 years after the transaction, in January 1959 ...
The Kolmakov Redoubt Site is a historic archaeological site on the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska. The site is located downriver from the hamlet of Sleetmute, about 21 miles east of Aniak. The site was the location of a major trading post, which was one of the only ones established deep in the Alaskan interior by the Russian-American Company.
New Russia (Russian: Новороссийск; also called Novarassi, Slavarassi, Slavorossiya (Russian: Славороссия), Yakutat Colony, and Yakutat Settlement) was a trading-post for furs and a penal colony [3] established by Russians in 1796 in present-day Yakutat Borough, Alaska.