DEBOULLIE MOUNTAIN #64
Maine - Aroostook County - Maine Forestry District
August 9, 1919: "Steel towers were added: Deboullie mountain, T15R9, Aroostook county, 12 feet high." (Daily Kennebec Journal)
1919: A 12-foot steel tower construction began, completion will be in 1920. (1919 Annual Report of the Forest Commissioner)
1919: "A good trail has been cleared out from the foot of DeBoulie Mountain to the top, where the watchman had a temporary lookout in the trees, which answered the purpose very well for this year.
The steel tower for the DeBoulie Mountain lookout station, and other materials for building the same, were started en route for the mountain, but too late late to get there last spring; therefore the work was put over until this fall. As soon as the lakes freeze up I would recommend that the work be completed." (Forest Protection and Conservation in Maine, 1919)
March 4, 1920: "Chief Warden Brown says:
'I built a telephone line from Birch River Dam patrol camp to DeBoullie Mountain (1919 season), a distance of eight miles, and connected this line direct into Eagle Lake central office, a distance of one and one-half miles, to connect the Whitman camps onto this line and installed a telephone in the camps which are situated at Island Pond Range 15, making the total length of this line about (?) miles.
'I built a temporary cabin at the foot of DeBoullie Mountain on the shores of DeBoullie Lake, for the watchman to live in, covered it with bark and installed a telephone therein, I would suggest building a larger camp there and cover it with shingles so as to store the canoe, fire fighting utensils, etc., at the close of the season.
'A good trail has been cleared out from the foot of DeBoullie Mountain to the top where the watchman has a temporary lookout in the trees, which answered the purpose very well for this year." (Daily Kennebec Journal)
1920: A 12 foot steel tower erected. (From the photo inventory of the Maine Historical Society.)
1929-30: A 48 foot steel tower with cab constructed. (From the photo inventory of the Maine Historical Society.)
May 25, 1935: "48 foot tower" (The Lewiston Daily Sun)
1937: The lookout struck by lightning and destroyed. A replacement tower immediately constructed.