The experiment: Kenai becomes an agricultural test site

The experiment: Kenai becomes an agricultural test site — Part 4

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 1902, the superintendent of this station, H.P. Nielsen, under the supervision of Sitka’s Prof. C.C. Georgeson, began changing the station’s focus to a dairy and beef farm. The experiment: Kenai be…

The experiment: Kenai becomes an agricultural test site

AUTHOR’S NOTE: After the agricultural experiment station in Kenai closed May 1, 1908, Alaska station supervisor C.C. Georgeson had to decide the fate of the infrastructure at the decade-old facility.