BEAVER LAKE MOUNTAIN
New York - Herkimer County
July 1910: A lookout was established on this point at a cost of $308.39. (Sixteenth Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission)
1919: A 60-foot Aermotor tower erected.
1919: A steel tower was erected. (9th Annual Report of the Conservation Commission)
c.1985: Tower removed.
DESIGNATION - BEAVER LAKE MOUNTAIN LOT
PID - OE1847
STATE/COUNTY- NY/HERKIMER
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD -
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1942 (FBQ)
THIS INTERSECTION STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 4 MILES N OF THE
VILLAGE OF NUMBER FOUR, ON THE SUMMIT OF BEAVER LAKE MOUNTAIN, AND
IS THE PROPERTY OF THE NEW YORK CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT.
IT IS A STANDARD LOOKOUT OBSERVATORY OF ALL STEEL CONSTRUCTION
WITH AN ENCLOSED CROWS NEST. IT IS ABOUT 30 FEET HIGH.
THE POINT LOCATED WAS THE APEX OF THE PYRAMIDAL ROOF.