Editing Sitka, Alaska (section)

===Economy===
The Alaska Pulp Corporation was the first Japanese investment in the United States after WWII. In 1959, it began to produce pulp harvested from the [[Tongass National Forest]] under a 50-year contract with the US Forest Service.<ref name="Paxton">{{cite web|url=http://www.sitka.net/sawmillcove/Park/History.html |title=The Evolution of a Marine Industrial Park |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=www.sitka.net |access-date=October 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025111352/http://www.sitka.net/sawmillcove/Park/History.html |archive-date=October 25, 2016}}</ref> At its peak, the mill employed around 450 people before closing in 1993.

Sitka's Filipino community established itself in Sitka before 1929. It later became institutionalized as the Filipino Community of Sitka in 1981.<ref name="Klaney">{{cite book |last=Klaney |first=Carol Kelty |title=Gunalcheesh! |publisher=Ptarmigan Press |year=1995 |location=Haines, Alaska |pages=77–78}}</ref>

Gold mining and fish canning paved the way for the town's initial growth. Today Sitka encompasses portions of Baranof Island and the smaller [[Japonski Island]], which is connected to Baranof Island by the [[John O'Connell Bridge]] (which uses the [[cable-stayed bridge | cable-stayed]] suspension method as its means of support). Japonski Island is home to [[Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport]] ([[IATA|{{abbr|IATA|International Air Transport Association}}]]: SIT; [[ICAO|{{abbr|ICAO|International Civil Aviation Organization}}]]: PASI), the Sitka branch campus of the [[University of Alaska Southeast]], [[Mt. Edgecumbe High School]] (a state-run boarding school for rural Alaskans), Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium's Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital, [[List of United States Coast Guard air stations|U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka]], and the port and facilities for the [[USCGC Kukui (WLB-203)|{{abbr|USCGC|United States Coast Guard Cutter}} ''Kukui'']].<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 21, 2017|title=Japonski Island|url=https://visitsitka.org/member/japonski-island|access-date=November 11, 2020|website=Visit Sitka}}</ref>