Kolmakov Redoubt Site

Kolmakov Redoubt Site
Nearest city Sleetmute, Alaska
Area 5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built 1841 (1841)
NRHP Reference # 74002322[1]
Added to NRHP February 15, 1974

The Kolmakov Redoubt Site is a historic archaeological site on the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska. The site is located approximately 20 miles (32 km) (in river miles) above the hamlet of Sleetmute. The site is 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. The first site established by the Russians, in 1832, was little more than a log cabin near the confluence of the Kuskokwim with the Holitna River, and was known as Kolmakov's Townlet, after the trader Fedor Kolmakov. The success of this location prompted the construction in 1833 of an "odinochka" (a small outpost staffed by 1-3 men) at the present location, near the confluence of the Kuskokwim and Kolmakof Rivers. At this site the Russians collected more than 1,400 beaver pelts in 1834, when their entire Alaska trade amounted to about 5,000. This facility was then upgraded to a "redoubt" (not a conventional military redoubt earthworks, but something more akin to a fortified trading post). The site was used until 1867, when American traders took over the fur trade following the Alaska Purchase.[2]

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Draft of Review of Alaska Request for a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest" (PDF). US Bureau of Land Management. Retrieved 2014-09-17.


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