Editing Protection, Kansas (section)

==History==
Protection was founded in 1884.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zdAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA166 | title=Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society | publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant | author=Kansas State Historical Society | year=1916 | pages=166}}</ref> Popular support for a [[protective tariff]] in the [[1884 United States presidential election|1884 presidential election]] caused the name to be selected.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4963 | title=Profile for Protection, Kansas | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | accessdate=7 June 2014}}</ref>  The first post office in Protection was established on August 27, 1884.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.kshs.org/geog/geog_postoffices/search/county:CM | title=Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 | publisher=Kansas Historical Society | accessdate=6 June 2014}}</ref>

The town became nationally and internationally known via radio and television in 1957,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/iron-lung/18723 | title=Iron Lung - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society }}</ref> when the National Polio Foundation chose it as the center for the free distribution of [[Polio vaccine|Salk vaccine shots]] for [[polio]]. It then became 100 percent protected.<ref>[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kscomanc/protection.html History of Protection]</ref>