Alaska National Historic Landmarks

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National Historic Landmarks in Alaska

Alaska’s National Historic Landmarks are special places that illustrate powerful stories of conflict and achievement.

National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) are nationally significant historic places designated for exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. Eplore some of Alaska's 50 NHLs to learn more about their history. Did you know some NHLs are located within national parks?

For all of the information on NHLs in Alaska, visit the National Historic Landmarks Program in Alaska website.

Keep in mind that National Historic Landmarks are not national parks. These designations do not indicate public ownership, and may or may not be open for visitation.

National Historic Landmarks in Alaska

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  • Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

    Skagway Historic District and White Pass National Historic Landmark

    • Locations: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    Historic buildings line the street of downtown Skagway.

    Skagway Historic District and White Pass is an Alaskan frontier mining town, situated on a prime route to the Upper Yukon Valley and Klondike gold-bearing regions.

  • Kobuk Valley National Park

    Onion Portage Archeological District National Historic Landmark

    • Locations: Kobuk Valley National Park
    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    A line drawing with a cross section of earth layers below and caribou walking above a ground line.

    The Onion Portage Archeological District National Historic Landmark is on the Kobuk River in the Kobuk Valley National Park. For 8000 years, people camped, made tools, prepared game, and eventually settled at Onion Portage.

  • Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

    Kijik Archeological District National Historic Landmark

    • Locations: Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    A line drawing of 3 people hanging salmon on drying racks by a cabin; 5 Dena’ina words are defined.

    The Kijik Archeological District, on the Shore of Lake Clark, comprises an extensive former village of Dena'ina Athabascans, dating from pre-European contact to the abandonment of Kijik village ca. 1910.

  • Gallagher Flint Station National Historic Landmark

    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    A line drawing with Alaska Native people wearing traditional clothing and caribou on the tundra.

    The Gallagher Flint Station Site was one of the earliest dated archaeological site in Northern Alaska in 1978.

  • Birnirk National Historic Landmark

    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    A line drawing depicting Inupiat people wearing traditional clothing and using bolas to hunt ducks.

    Birnirk Site is one of the oldest continuously occupied villages in Alaska. Sites liek this are along the northwestern and northern coast, where whales, seals, walrus, and caribou have made it possible for people to live in the arctic.

  • Anangula National Historic Landmark

    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    A line drawing depicting Unangan people in traditional clothing within an oceanside landscape.

    The south coast people living from the Aleutians to Prince William Sound, were skilled kayakers and sea hunters. Anangula Site is one of the areas associated with South Coast Sea Hunters.

  • Yukon Island Main Site National Historic Landmark

    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    A line drawing of an archeological dig of layers with a woman sitting and two people standing behind

    The south coast people living from the Aleutians to Prince William Sound, were skilled kayakers and sea hunters. Yukon Island Main Site is an associated landmark.

  • Wales Sites National Historic Landmark

    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    A line drawing showing Inupiat people and different types of semi-subterranean structures.

    Some of the oldest continuously occupied villages in Alaska are along the northwestern and northern coast, where whales, seals, walrus, and caribou have made it possible for people to live in the arctic. Wales Site is an associated site.

  • Walrus Islands Archeological District National Historic Landmark

    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    A line drawing showing several Yup’ik hunters harvesting a walrus on a rocky beach.

    The Walrus Islands Archeological District is our earliest glimpse of a relationship between people and walrus in Alaska. It is one of the few remaining places that provide evidence of human occupation of the Bering Sea continental shelf 6,000 years ago, when sea levels were substantially lower than present.

  • Sitka National Historical Park

    Russian Bishop's House National Historic Landmark

    • Locations: Sitka National Historical Park
    • Offices: National Historic Landmarks Program
    A two story yellow building with a red roof and white trimmed windows and doors.

    Designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1962 the Russian Bishops House site was a cultural and educational center in Alaska from the 1840's to the mid-twentieth century.

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Last updated: July 25, 2017

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