What the record shows
The federal survey describes the site: on W side of Baranof I., S of Mount Dranishnikov, between Redoubt Bay and Redoubt Lake, 4 mi. NE of Goddard, Alex. Arch.
"Previously called ""Seleniye Dranishnikova"" or ""Dranishnikov Settlement"" by Lieutenant Sarichev (1826, map 19), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), for Mount Dranishnikof. It was first reported by Captain Tebenkov (1852, map 38), Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as ""Ozerskoy Redut,"" meaning ""redoubt lake."" It is the site of an abandoned Russian fishery and flour mill (Colby, 1945, p. 175)."
The Redoubtappears 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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