GOODNOW MOUNTAIN
New York - Essex County
1921: "A site for a new observation tower in the town of Newcomb, Essex county, has been selected on Goodenow mountain. A steel tower has been secured for this station with extensive cooperation of landowners and lumbermen operating in that vicinity, and it is hoped to have this station in full operation by 1922. This new station will take the place of Dunbrook Mountain station, which was abandioned in 1919." (Annual Report of the Conservation Commission)
1922: "A new sixty-foot steel tower was erected early in the spring on Goodenow mountain in the Town of Newcomb, Essex county. This is a new observation station and is of great value in affording better protection to areas in that vicinity where there is a great deal of valuable timberland and where present lumbering operations create a very considerable fire hazard. (Twelfth Annual Report of the Conservation Commission - 1922)
June 16, 1927: "During the severe electric storm in the Newcomb section recently, lightning struck the telephone wire leading to the fire observation tower on Goodnow mountain and did much damage. A hedgehog nearby also got in the way of the bolt and was considerably disfigured. When John Keays, the observer of the mountain, was going up the trail the next morning, he found a quarter of a mile of the wire had been melted and was entirely gone. Another section of the same length was reduced to very small pieces. In the brush by the trail, he found a hedgehog with a strip three inches wide extending from the head to the tail where the quills had been peeled off by the lightning bolt. He kicked the animal and found it alive. Mr. Hedgehog got up rather dazed like and disappeared in the bushes." (Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post)