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Port Protection
 Located
on the northern tip of Prince of Wales Island, Port Protection is 145
miles south of Juneau and 98 miles northwest of Ketchikan. It lies in
the Tongass National Forest. It lies at approximately 56° 19' N
Latitude, 133° 36' W Longitude (Sec. 19, T064S, R076E, Copper River
Meridian). The community is located in the Petersburg Recording
District. The area encompasses 2 sq. miles of land and 1 sq. miles of
water.
"Wooden Wheel" Johnson became the first
resident in the early 1900s. His store and fuel dock, and a fish-buying
scow, enabled trollers to stop on their trips north and south. In 1946,
Buckshot Woolery opened the B.S. Trading Post to replace the scow. In
the 1950s a warehouse was built with an eventual plan of creating a
shrimp cannery. The cannery idea was never realized, and the building
now stands empty. Woolery closed his trading post in 1973. State land
disposal programs have enabled the area to be permanently settled.
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