The Experiment: Kenai Becomes an Agricultural Test Site

The experiment: Kenai becomes an agricultural test site — Part 5

Peninsula Clarion Peninsula Clarion - 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. The experiment: Kenai becom…

The experiment: Kenai becomes an agricultural test site

Over the past 50 years or more, the City of Kenai has attempted on several occasions to capitalize on its long history, particularly on the remnants of the past still evident at this gathering place near the mouth of the Kenai River.