AZISCOOS MOUNTAIN #21
Oxford County - Maine Forestry District
1910: Established with a wood tower. (From the photo inventory of the Maine Historical Society.)
1917: "S.F. Peaslee, Upton, Chief Warden, Androscoggin Watershed: The building of a home camp 12x14 feet inside, for the watchman at Aziscoos lookout station on the trail down about one-half mile from the summit, at a brook crossing, and the building of a telephone box for same. Transporting the lookout cabin which was carried as far as Errol, N.H., two years ago, to the summit of Aziscoos Mountain and erecting the same. The foreman, Neal McGinley, has not reported to me yet whether this work at Aziscoos Mountain was fully completed." (Forest Protection and Conservation in Maine)
1917: A ten foot high wood tower was erected. (1917 Annual Report of the Forest Commissioner)
1919: The tower site was relocated and a new 24-foot steel tower erected. (1919 Annual Report of the Forest Commissioner)
August 9, 1919: "Steel towers were added: Aziscoos mountain, in Grafton, Oxford county, 36 feet high." (Daily Kennebec Journal)
1919: "On the Androscoggin watershed the Maine Forestry District has erected a steel tower about twenty-seven feet high at Lookout Station No. 21 on Aziscoos Mountain in Lincoln Plantation. The telephone line to this tower is owned by the Maine Forestry District which connects with the Brown Company's telephone line near the Horace Bennett buildings in Lincoln Plantation, Oxford County, Maine, a distance of two miles or a little less." (Forest Protection and Conservation in Maine, 1919)
1920: Inventory shows a 24-foot steel tower.