What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: on Hinchinbrook I., on N shore of Port Etches, 35 mi. SW of Cordova; Chugach Mts.
"site of an abandoned Eskimo village (Hodge, 1910, p. 90). The Russians built a stockade post here about 1793 called ""Fort Konstantine"" probably named for Grand Duke Constantine, the younger brother of Czar Alexander II. 1880 was 74, in 1890, 145."
Nuchekappears in the U.S. Geological Survey's place-name archive as a historical populated place — a settlement that once carried a name and no longer does. Our editors are verifying its full story against census records, newspaper archives, and county histories; this record will grow as sources are confirmed.
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