Sitka
or NEW ARCHANGEL, a about 1,300 miles N. of San Francisco.
SIX COMPANIES It is located amid beautiful scenery, and has a wide and deep harbor, somewhat difficult of entrance. The town contains a hospital, museum, an industrial and public school, the Greek Church of St.
Michael, built in 1816, and in which the Russians still maintain the national religion, and a Presbyterian mission, where ing in connection with the ordinary boys and girls receive an industrial trainbranches of an English education. The principal business establishment, that of the Russian-American Fur Company, organized in 1799, was located here till 1863. When Alaska was transferred to the United States in 1867, Sitka contained has made considerable progress and a number of substantial and permanent buildings have been erected. Pop. (1920) 1,175.