Jabbertown, AK (site)

Abandoned native village on Point Hope, AK.

Point Hope (Tikeraq) peninsula is one of the oldest continuously occupied Inupiat Eskimo areas in Alaska. Several settlements have existed on the peninsula over the past 2,500 years, including Old and New Tigara, Ipiutak, Jabbertown, and present Point Hope.

By the late 1880s, the whalers established shore-based whaling stations, such as Jabbertown. These disappeared with the demise of whaling in the early 1900s.

Source: www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_N...