Population est. 140 / Library 907-530-7112
Hollis is the gateway to Prince of Wales Island and the home port for the Inter-Island ferry Authority that provides daily ferry service between Hollis and Ketchikan on the MV Prince of Wales and MV Stikine. Hollis is on the east side of the island, 22 miles east of Craig and 35 miles west of Ketchikan.
Around 1900, Hollis was a bustling mining town with a population of more than 1,000. Gold and silver were mined nearby until about 1915. The town had a hotel, bank and a post office in it's heyday. The forest swallowed up the old mining town when eight mines closed by the 1940s. Speculators are considering reactivating one gold mine, waiting on results of core samples.
Maybeso Creek photo by Carolyn Chapman In 1953,Hollis became a logging camp when the U.S. Forest Service signed a long-term timber contract with Ketchikan Pulp Co. Hollis was the base for timber operation until 1962 when the camp moved to Thorne Bay. The area was settled after 1980 via state land sales.
Hollis has five subsivisions on six miles of road; recent state land sales have brought growth. More than 40 residential lots of three or four acres have sold in the past three years and at least 10 are scheduled for sale in 2011.
 Hollis has a small public school, a well-stocked public library, a volunteer fire dept.,an emergency medical services unit and an emergency medevac heliport. The community boasts a boat dock, a new million-dollar floatplane dock for commercial air carriers, a new covered picnic shelter area with restroom facilites and a half-mile boardwalk and foot trail through the forest near Harris River. The community plans to extend the trail another mile to the estuary of the Twelve Mile Arm Bay near Cat Island. Hollis Community Council is buying 10 acres of state land to restore and expand a public cemetary and Garden of Memories Park. Some burials date to the early 1900s. Hollis Anchorage photo by Rebecca Chester
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