SW of Yakutat on Phipps Peninsula, Yakutat, Alaska. County/parish: Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 23, 1972. NRIS 72001593.
1 contributing site.
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 established by Russians in 1796 in present-day Yakutat Borough, Alaska.: 15–16 It was presumably named after the Joseph Billings ship Slava Rossii, or "Glory of Russia".
The post was attacked and destroyed by Tlingit people in 1805 during the Russo-Tlingit War of 1802-1805. The 7 buildings inside a stockade, and 5 buildings outside, were burnt in 1805, and the site was never again occupied. The events at New Russia represent a pivotal moment in Russian-Tlingit relations. As an archaeological site, it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1978.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75325774