Snug Harbor Cannery: A Beacon on the Forgotten Shore, 1919-1980
Ringsmuth KJ. 2005. Snug Harbor Cannery: A Beacon on the Forgotten Shore, 1919-1980
In 1880, census taker Ivan Petroff wrote a report that described a lonely landscape along the west side of Cook Inlet. Petroff's sharp pen noted recently abandoned native dwellings on Kalgin Island, the bold and mountainous mainland terrain, and a coastline beset with dangerous outlying reefs. He described the shoreline as "deserted and desolate, a wilderness of barren rock and drifting snow, the battlefield of furious gales." "The mainland," he observed, "trembles before an increasing onslaught of a raging sea, kept in a state of turmoil, by the joint action of wind and tide." To Petroff this place was not only unforgiving, but it had been forgotten by time. Fittingly, he called Cook Inlet's west side the "Forgotten Shore."
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Ringsmuth, Katherine
- Date of Issue
- 2005
- Units
- HIST , LACL
- Keywords
- Biology, cannery, Clams, ehistory, Fisheries, History, Lake Clark, Management, National Park, operations