 In 1834, Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, then head of Russian government interests in Russian America, ordered a stockade built near the "Naanyaa.aayí" clan house of Chief Shakes, called "Shéiksh Hídi".This house was located about north of Old Wrangell, on a small island in the middle of what is today Wrangell Harbor.The stockade, named Redoubt Saint Dionysius ("Редутъ Санктъ Дионисіусъ"), was founded at the location of present-day Wrangell and stood near the end of the small peninsula that forms the northeastern side of the mouth of the harbor.