Sitka Spruce Plantation
United States historic place in Unalaska, Alaska. Built 1805. Added to the National Register in 1978, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
Sitka Spruce Park is a public park in the city of Unalaska, Alaska. The roughly 5-acre (2.0 ha) park is located on Biorka Drive on Amaknak Island, south of Unalaska Airport. It is one of the few places on the island where there are a significant number of trees. A small part of the park is a National Historic Landmark, as it was the site of the earliest documented afforestation in North America. In 1805, Russian agents planted an unknown number of Sitka spruce trees in the area, of which six were documented to be surviving in 1978.
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The record
| Property type | Site |
| Address | N of Unalaska on Amaknak Island, Unalaska vicinity, AK |
| County | Aleutian Islands County |
| Listed | Feb 14, 1978 |
| Reference number | 78000513 |
| Built | 1805 |
| Type of place | park |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
| Contributing resources | 1 sites |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | N of Unalaska on Amaknak Island, Unalaska, AK |
| Coordinates | 53.88758, -166.54178 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area · 2 mi · on Park Atlas |
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Nearby in Aleutian Islands County
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Sources
Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 78000513. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.