History & culture in Thorne Bay

The people and history of Thorne Bay: museums, cultural centers, totem parks and historic sites. Every fact links to its source.

Thorne Bay in brief

A 5,360-year-old spruce-root basket was found in the Thorne River estuary in 1998. It is now kept at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau. (discoverpowisland.com · checked Oct 6, 2026)
In 1961 Ketchikan Pulp Co. relocated its floating logging camp from Hollis onto land at Thorne Bay. (discoverpowisland.com · checked Oct 6, 2026)
According to the island's chamber of commerce, the biggest logging camps in the world operated at Thorne Bay in the 1960s. (discoverpowisland.com · checked Oct 6, 2026)
A State of Alaska land sale let residents incorporate Thorne Bay as a city in 1982. (discoverpowisland.com · checked Oct 6, 2026)

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