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Taku Harbor

Taku Harbor

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Juneau
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 190 ft (57.91 m)
About

on E shore of Taku Harbor, 22 mi. SE of Juneau, Coast Mts.

History of Taku Harbor

Former Tlingit Indian village or camp, collectively listed as four Taku-kon villages, population 269, in the 1880 Census by Ivan Petroff. In 1908 J. R. Swanton, Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), published the name as "Takokakaan" (Hodge, 1910, p. 675).