CONNECTICUT LOOKOUTS
BALD HILL
UNION
Tolland County
Tolland County
1910: "A plan is now being arranged to make a trial in the towns of Union, Woodstock, Ashford, Eastford and Stafford, by the establishment of a lookout This lookout will be located on Ochepetuck Mountain, locally called Bald Hill, in the town of Union. This is to be a central point for the receipt and sending of messages by telephone concerning fires.
The person living on this hill will keep a lookout for fires each day during the dry season of 1911, will ascertain the nature and definite location of a fire by means of the telephone and be guided by a large map on which are entered the location, name and telephone number of cooperating parties in the five towns. The lookout, after receiving definite information, will notify the nearest warden and give instructions. Such a system, worked out in detail, will save time and money for the towns concerned, causing fires to be quickly extinguished." (Report of The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station)
The person living on this hill will keep a lookout for fires each day during the dry season of 1911, will ascertain the nature and definite location of a fire by means of the telephone and be guided by a large map on which are entered the location, name and telephone number of cooperating parties in the five towns. The lookout, after receiving definite information, will notify the nearest warden and give instructions. Such a system, worked out in detail, will save time and money for the towns concerned, causing fires to be quickly extinguished." (Report of The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station)
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