Coal Village Site

Coal Village Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Nearest city	Port Graham, Alaska
Coordinates	59°23′54″N151°54′6″W / 59.39833°N 151.90167°W / 59.39833; -151.90167
Area	65.1 acres (26.3 ha)
Built	1855 (1855)
Built by	Enoch Hjalmar Furuhjelm; Russian American Company
NRHP reference No.	78003424 [1]
AHRS No.	SEL-021
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 21, 1978
Designated AHRS	1970

The Coal Village Site, also known as Coal Cove after the name of the bay south of it, is a historic archaeological site near Port Graham, Alaska. It was the location of a coal mining operation established by the Russian American Company in 1855, and was for a time the third largest settlement in Russian Alaska. An open-pit coal mine was mined until 1860, when a fire destroyed the main steam engine, and the site was abandoned in 1865. When the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it was overgrown, and remnants of building foundations, a railway, and other artifacts were discernible, as was a refuse midden. ^[2]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "NRHP nomination for Coal Village Site". National Park Service. Retrieved January 30, 2015.