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Sitka, the capital of Russian America
1799
Sitka, Alaska
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Alexander Baranov built the Russian-American Company's capital on Tlingit land, running a sea otter trade that used coerced Aleut hunters and drove the animal nearly to extinction. New Archangel was for a time the largest settlement on the Pacific coast of North America.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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