(draft) Fort William H. Seward National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation)
Johnson E, Wachtel J, Lewis D. 2024. (draft) Fort William H. Seward National Historic Landmark Nomination (Updated Documentation). 72000190_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This property is the subject of a pending National Historic Landmark update. The October 2024 draft of the updated National Historic Landmark documentation for Fort William H. Seward NHL in Haines, Alaska, will be considered by the National Park System Advisory Board (NPSAB) at its meeting on December 9-10, 2024. The NPSAB will evaluate whether to recommend that the Secretary of the Interior proceed with approving the updated documentation. The updated NHL nomination for Fort William H. Seward documents its national significance under NHL Criterion 1 as the most intact remaining example of the twelve military forts that were constructed during the Alaska gold rush of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and for its relationship to the Alaska boundary dispute that occurred during the same period. The updated documentation revises and clearly defines the NHL boundary, identifies contributing and noncontributing resources, provides additional historical information and context, and re-names the NHL Fort William H. Seward (Chilkoot Barracks). The period of national significance is 1902-1945.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Johnson, Erik; Wachtel, John; Lewis, Darrell
- Date of Issue
- 2024-10
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- Alaska, army, boundary, Canada, diplomacy, gold rush, Haines, military, National Historic Landmark