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| Keywords: Ouzinkie from the water, ca 1912 (THWAITES 184).jpeg check categories 27 October 2016 1 Photograph Creator John E Thwaites Caption on image Ouzinkie Alaska near Kodiak PH Coll 247 285<br/>Ouzinkie is located on the west coast of Spruce Island adjacent to Kodiak Island It lies northwest of the City of Kodiak Ouzinkie became a retirement community for the Russian American Company The Russians referred to the settlement in 1849 as Uzenkiy meaning village of Russians and Creoles In 1889 the Royal Packing Company constructed a cannery at Ouzinkie Shortly afterward the American Packing Company built another In 1890 a Russian Orthodox Church was built and in 1927 a post office was established Cattle ranching was popular in the early 1900s In 1964 the Good Friday earthquake and resulting tsunami destroyed the Ouzinkie Packing Company cannery Following the disaster Columbia Ward bought the remains and rebuilt the store and dock but not the cannery In the late 1960s the Ouzinkie Seafoods cannery was constructed The operation was sold to Glacier Bay and burned down in 1976 shortly after the sale No canneries have operated since Ouzinkie is a Sugpiaq Eskimo village with historical Russian influences Commercial fishing and subsistence activities support the community Subjects LCTGM Ouzinkie Alaska ; Villages--Alaska; Narrow Strait Alaska depicted place United States--Alaska--Ouzinkie ca 1912 Institution University of Washington UWASH-THWAITES-source accession number thwaites 184 PD-old-auto-1923 1940 Information field Order Number THW146 Images from the John E Thwaites Photographs of Alaska Collection to check Villages | ||||
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