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O Alaska Raptor Center VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
1000 Raptor Way. Tel 747-8662.
@ Community Ride. Open May–Sep: Practical Information
8am–4pm daily; Oct–Apr: 10am– 96 miles (155 km) NW of
3pm Mon–Fri. & 8 7 = Petersburg. Transport map E5.
∑ alaskaraptor.org * 9,000. n 303 Lincoln St
One of the state’s best raptor (upstairs), 747-8604. _ Sitka
hospital and rehabilitation Summer Music Festival (three
weeks in Jun); Sitka Whalefest
centers, the non-profit Alaska (early Nov).
Raptor Center treats injured Bald eagle in the compound of the Alaska ∑ sitka.org
ravens and raptors such as Raptor Center
eagles, falcons, owls, and Transport
hawks, and tries to re-adapt style opulence to Russian ~ g
them to life in the wild. Seriously America. Despite the building’s
wounded birds become Raptors- flam boyance, its first occupant, Russian cemetery, where
in-Residence and are used in Bishop Veniaminov, lived a hundreds of graves recall 18th-
educational programs for visitors. simple monastic life. and 19th-century Russian Sitka.
Over the years, the building
P Russian Bishop’s House has served as an orphanage, P Sitka National Historical
Lincoln & Monastery Sts. Tel 747- seminary, and school. The last Park
0110/07. @ Community Ride. Open Russian bishop moved out 103 Monastery St. n 747-0110. Open
May–Sep: 8:30am–5pm daily; winter: in 1969 and the building was May–Sep: 6am–10pm daily; Oct–Apr:
by appt. & 8 7 ∑ nps.gov/sitk purchased in 1972 by the US 7am–8pm daily. Closed public hols.
The oldest building in Sitka, this National Park Service for res tora- 8 7 = ∑ nps.gov/sitk
1843 structure is one of the few tion. On the main floor is a model Alaska’s oldest federal park was
surviving examples of secular of Novo Archangelsk as it looked established in 1910 to commem-
Russian architecture. The original in 1845 and a col lection of icons o rate the 1804 Battle of Sitka. In
building was made from spruce and relics. To see the library, 1802, Tlingit warriors of the Kiks.
by Finnish woodworkers, chapel, and Bishop’s quarters, it ádi tribe attacked the Russian
Swan who introduced Baltic- is neces sary to join a guided tour. redoubt, killing most of the
Lake
LAKEVIEW DRIVE
LAK E STREET
Ferry Terminal Russian and Aleut personnel.
330 yard (300 m) Swan
Lake The Russians returned with four
Park MERRILL STREET Indian River Trail ships and beseiged the Tlingit
OSPREY STREET MO N AS TE RY S TREET DE GROFF STREET GEODETIC WAY fort. After much bloodshed,
SAWMILL CREEK ROA D I N D I A N RI VER ROAD Russians entered the fort to find
that it had been abandoned by
HALIBUT POINT ROAD
E R L E R S T R E E T BIORKA ST PARK ST the Tlingit. Today, the site is part
OJA ST of the park. From the visitors’
ETOLIN STREET JEFF DAVIS STREET Raptor Center center and museum, trails lead
OJA WAY SAWMILL CREEK ROAD Alaska
BARANOF ST
Blockhouse Russian FINN S T J. G. BRADY DR. W A Y through rainforest past nearly a
and Russian Bishop’s LINCOLN ST dozen Northwest Coast totem
MARINE STREET
House
KOGWANTON STREET
Cemetery C OLLEGE DR Indian River R A P T O R poles. To the east is the site of
KATLIAN STREET
St. Michael’s Crescent Harbor Sheldon the Tlingit fort and the actual
Jackson
Sitka Channel
Russian Orthodox Harrigan Museum
Cathedral Centennial Hall battleground, while to the
Marine
Wet Lab
Museum
Castle Sitka History SNHP Visitor Center Whale Park north, across the creek, trails
Hill H ARBOR DR and Museum 3 miles (5 km) lead to the Russian Memorial.
O‘Connell Bridge Sitka National
Crescent Bay Historical Park
Airport Trail of Totems
1 mile (2 km)
0 metres 300
0 yards 300
Sights at a Glance P Blockhouse and Russian
Cemetery
1 Sitka History Museum Kogwantan & Marine Sts. Blockhouse:
2 St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Open late May–early Sep: noon–4pm
Cathedral Sun. Cemetery: Open 24 hrs.
3 Sheldon Jackson Museum North of St. Michael’s sits a
4 Alaska Raptor Center reconstruction of an octagonal
5 Russian Bishop’s House two-story blockhouse used by the
6 Blockhouse and Russian Russians to shield their redoubt
Cemetery from the Tlingit. Just behind the Prince of Wales Island totem pole, Sitka
7 Sitka National Historical Park Blockhouse lies the overgrown National Historical Park
For keys to symbols see back flap
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