PAWTUCKAWAY
New Hampshire - Rockingham County
1914: "This year the first steel lookout tower built by the state was erected on Mt. Pawtuckaway. This costs little more than a wooden tower, affords a better shelter for the watchman, and practically permanent. Others will be built next year. (Biennial Report of the Forestry Commissioner)
January 3, 1930: "The tree line leading to Pawtuckaway Mountain was replaced by ground wire and the Goodrich house was connected with the lookout station.
In the Pawtuckaway section there once were 18 farming families within a radius of two miles from the mountain top. Today but two farms are operated and among the abandoned acres are those owned by George C. Goodrich. The state bought this property in 1920 and the old house will be occupied in the forest fire season by the Forestry Department watchman who also will act as caretaker. The Pawtuckaway reservation is nearly 1,000 acres in extent." (Portsmouth Herald)
March 26, 1938: "True M. Rollins, who was fire warden and forest fire lookout at Pawtuckaway Mountain for 14 years, died at his home in Deerfield recently." (Portsmouth Herald)
August 1, 1947: "A seven-year-old Irish setter trying out for the first time as a search dog, found the missing Mrs. Libby Ferrin today nestled into a bed of grass and pine needles within a half mile of the Pawtuckaway Mountain home she wandered away from six days ago.
The 60-year-old woman, wife of James Ferrin, the mountain's forest fire lookout was resting comfortably tonight at an Exeter hospital where she was taken after Boy Scouts slashed a path through dense underbrush to a waiting ambulance.
Her face was scratched and bitten by mosquitos, but otherwise she was unharmed.
The woman started out on one of her customary walks through the reservation last Friday and was last seen by her husband from his lookout tower atop the mountain" (Portland Press Herald - Maine)