Editing Tyonek, Alaska (section)

== History ==
A [[Dena'ina people|Dena'ina]] [[Alaska Native]] village at Tyonek was noted by the explorer [[James Cook]] in 1778. The [[Lebedev-Lastochkin Company]], a Russian [[fur trade]] venture, maintained a small trapping station on the site of Tyonek.<ref name=LLC>Solojova, Katerina and Aleksandra Vovnyanko. ''The Rise and Decline of the Lebedev-Lastochkin Company: Russian Colonization of South Central Alaska, 1787-1798.'' The Pacific Northwest Quarterly 90, No. 4 (1999), pp. 191-205.</ref> A detachment of the [[Vancouver Expedition]] under [[Joseph Whidbey]] visited the trading post in May 1794. Whidbey found that the LLC maintained "one large house, about fifty feet long, twenty-four wide, and about ten feet high; this was appropriated to the residence of nineteen Russians..."<ref>[[George Vancouver|Vancouver, George]] [https://archive.org/details/cihm_41863/page/n143 ''A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean... Vol. 3.''] London: J. Edwards Pall Mall and G. Robinson Paternoster Row. 1798, p. 122.</ref> A [[smallpox]] epidemic in the late 1830s killed about half the population. Tyonek became a major port during the [[Resurrection Creek]] [[gold rush]] of the 1880s, but declined after the founding of [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]] on the other side of [[Cook Inlet]] in 1915. Tyonek was moved to its current site when the original village, located on lower ground, flooded in the 1930s.