 In the 1960s and 1970s it was the largest logging camp in North America and was host to over 1500 residents at its peak.It became a second-class city in 1982 and in 2001 the logging company pulled out having been a victim of breach of contract from the U.S. Forest Service.The U.S. Forest Service signed a fifty-year contract in 1954 guaranteeing per year for the pulp mill and sawmills in Ketchikan.