Sitka Alaska History Topics Brief County Overview and Description Sitka - Alaska's Old Capital (1909) The Story of Sitka, The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast The Chief Factory of the Russian American Company by C.L. Andrews, 1922 CONTENTS   Foreword 1 I Discovery 7 II Settlement 13 III Progress of the Colony 27 IV Natives 45 V Churches and Schools 54 VI Social Life 60 VII Trade and Industry 66 VIII Sitka under United States Rule 77 IX What to See 92 History of Alaska 1730-1885 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, 1886 Chapter 17: The Founding of Sitka (1798-1801) Copyright ©Genealogy Trails