The experiment: Kenai becomes an agricultural test site

The experiment: Kenai becomes an agricultural test site — Part 2

Peninsula Clarion Peninsula Clarion - AUTHOR’S NOTE: Presidential Executive Order #148, in January 1899, had set aside 320 acres of land near Russian Orthodox Church property in the village of Kenai for the creation of an agricultural experiment station. The superintendent of this new station was H.P. Nielsen, under the supervision of Sitka’s C.C. Georgeson, special agent in charge of all such stations in Alaska. The experiment: Kenai becomes an…

The experiment: Kenai becomes an agricultural test site

AUTHOR’S NOTE: A presidential executive order in January 1899 had set aside 320 acres of land near Russian Orthodox Church property in the village of Kenai for the creation of an agricultural experiment station. By 1904, the superintendent of the Kenai Station, P.H. Ross, under the supervision of Sitka’s Prof. C.C. Georgeson, was focused almost solely on dairy and beef production.