Killisnoo, Alaska
{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Alaska, United States}}
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|leader_name = Bert Stedman (R)
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|leader_name1 = Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (D)
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Killisnoo was an unincorporated community on Killisnoo Island in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska, near Angoon, Admiralty Island. Killisnoo had a post office until it closed in 1930. The community was known by several alternative names, including Kanas-nu, Kanasnu, Kenasnow and Killishoo.
History
File:HITCHCOCK(1899) p493 KILLISNOO.jpg
Killisnoo Island has long been inhabited by Tlingit people. In the late 1800s, the North West Trading Company built a fish processing plant at Killisnoo and many Tlingit moved from nearby Angoon and other areas to Killisnoo to work at the plant. The plant was destroyed in a fire in 1928 and most of the residents left Killisnoo.
The St. Andrew Church in Killisnoo was destroyed by fire in 1927, and the congregation built a new church called St. John the Baptist church in Angoon.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=80004589}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: St. John the Baptist Church |author=Alfred Mongin and Joseph P. Kreta |date=June 14, 1979 |publisher=National Park Service}}
Like nearby Angoon, Killisnoo receives less rain than most of southeastern Alaska. Whaler's Cove Lodge is an active hunting and fishing lodge located on Killisnoo.
Demographics
{{US Census population
|1890= 79
|1900= 172
|1910= 351
|1920= 256
|1930= 3
|1940= 26
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Killisnoo first appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village of 79 residents. Although it was considered to be a Tlingit village, Whites outnumbered Tlingits by 44 to 33, with 2 Asians.{{cite web |title=Report on Population and Resources of Alaska at the Eleventh Census: 1890 |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1890a_v8-01.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau |publisher=Government Printing Office}} It continued to appear until 1940, when most of the residents left. It was later annexed into the neighboring city of Angoon.
References
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External links and further reading
- [http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1738/a%20russian%20american%20photographer%20in%20tlingit%20country A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska] by Sergei Kan, University of Oklahoma Press 2013, hardcover, 271 pages, 137 black and white photographs of people and scenes in Killisnoo and southeastern Alaska taken circa 1910, {{ISBN|9780806142906}}
- [http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/a-russian-american-photographing-native-alaska/ "A Russian-American Photographing Native Alaska"] illustrated review by Maurice Berger in the photography blog "Lens" in The New York Times July 17, 2013
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska
Category:Unincorporated communities in Alaska
Category:Unincorporated communities in Unorganized Borough, Alaska