Another Version Of How The Cove Was Named

Al Lagergren was a carpenter at the Tenakee Fisheries Cannery in 1918. In the fall of 1919 he applied for and was issued a homesite permit to locate a cabin in a cove about a mile east of the cannery.

In 1931 the Forest Service renewed Lagergren's special use permit as "a 4 acre homesite at Coffee Cove". The name soon appeared on maps and charts, and for good reason. The cove was named for Al in honor of the huge amounts of coffee he drank, although after suffering a mild stroke in the mid-1940's he only drank Sanka.

(As told to us by Bob Pegues who is researching the history of the canneries in Tenakee Inlet.)