The Mariners Wall, a memorial and tribute to those who go to sea, is situation in the ANB Harbor parking lot at 231 Katlian Street. The 2,000 bricks in the 40-foot-long structure bear the names of mariners past and present, boats, and messages....
Sitka, with its deep Tlingit as well as Russian and American colonial history, has 23 of Alaska’s approximately 450 historic properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Eight of these are National Historic Landmarks, sites of...
In 2024, the National Trust for Historic Preservation listed Sitka’s Tlingit Clan Houses as one of the Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places in the United States. Sitka’s Historic Indian Village, on Katlian and Kaagwaantaan Streets, was once...
One of the eight National Historic Landmarks in Sitka commemorates World War II. Sitka Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Coast Defenses National Historic Landmark is on Japonski and neighboring islands, across the O’Connell Bridge from downtown...