Sheldon Jackson
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Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and political leader. During this career he travelled about one million miles and established more than one hundred missions and churches, most
Jackson (c. 1895)
Sheldon Jackson, third from right, on USS Bear (1874)
Marker Vermillion Institute 214
Sitka, Alaska
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Sitka is a unified city-borough in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Alaska. It was under Russian rule from 1799 to 1867. The city is situated on the west side of Baranof Island and the south
Sheldon Jackson
…Jackson died on May 2, 1909, in Asheville, North Carolina. He is interred in his hometown of Minaville, New York. The former Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, was named after him. The Sheldon Jackson Museum, on the Sheldon Jackson College grounds, is the oldest concrete building in the state, and…
Downtown Sitka in 1984
New Archangel, 1805
Gajaa Héen (Old Sitka), c. 1827. The new Russian palisade atop "Castle Hill" (Noow Tlein) that surrounded the Governor's Residence had three watchtowers, armed with 32 cannons, for defense against Tlingit attacks.
Group of Distinguished Chiefs in Sitka (1868)