Jump to navigation Jump to search The National Historic Landmarks in Alaska represent Alaska’s history from its Russian heritage to its statehood. The National Historic Landmark Program is administered by the National Park Service, a branch of the Department of the Interior. The National Park Service determines which properties meet NHL criteria and makes nomination recommendations after an russian orthodox dating notification process. The table below lists all of the National Historic Landmark sites, along with added detail and description.

Historic aerial photograph of the Adak Army Base and Adak Naval Operating Base in early 1944, a busy harbor ringed by installations with snowy mountains in the background. In 1867, site of Russian flag lowering and American flag raising marking the transfer of Alaska to the U. 1959, after Alaska admitted as 49th state, site of first official raising of 49-star U. Site of earliest signs of human occupation in the Aleutian Islands. Site of bloody battle in which only 29 of 2,500 Japanese survived, only battle on U.

Photograph of Kaykak Island from offshore, believed to be the Bering Expedition Landing Site. Sixteen prehistoric mounds of the Birnirk and Thule cultures. An archaeological site located along an ancient beach and modern river. There are twenty separate well preserved sites which have provided a large number of Arctic Small Tool Tradition artifacts. Aerial photograph of the Cape Krusenstern Archeological District, showing the coast where the archeological strata are found.

The archeological district comprises 114 ancient beach ridges which formed nearly 60 years apart. They provide a rare sequential look at over 5000 years of inhabitation. Historical photograph of a dense line of miners climbing over the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush. Major access route from the coast to Yukon goldfields in the late 1890s.