BEE MOUNTAIN
West Virginia - Kanawha County - West Virginia Division of Forestry
October 10, 1926: "The Bee Mountain tower located at the head of Lens Creek in Kanawha County is connected with a telephone line operated at East Bank." (Charleston Gazette)
July 20, 1936: "Large crowds visited the new picnic spot surrounding the 80 foot steel fire tower on Bee Mountain, 15 miles southeast of Charleston yesterday.
The Bee mountain site, two miles from the Lens creek road, is the twentieth picnic spot at state fire observation towers constructed by the civilian conservation corps.
Forester D.B. Griffin said more will be opened to the public this summer.
A fireplace, benches and other conveniences for an outing were placed in a grove around the tall tower on Bee mountain. A roadway to the top of the 1,700 foot point was completed early this year." (Charleston Gazette)
November 28, 1937: "A log ranger's cabin on Bee mountain has been completed by the CCC for use of the observer on duty during forest fire seasons on top of this Kanawha county peak. It replaces a corrugated iron cabin and adds to the beauty of this favorite picnic spot of the capitol city region." (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)
October 13, 1947: "The following observers will man firetowers in the district: Bee Mountain, Joe Gilpin, Hernshaw." (The Raleigh Register)
October 14, 1948: "The district office in Beckley listed the observers and their towers in order that residents and other firefighters may know who they will work with.
Kanawha County: O.D. Pauley, of Henshaw, at the Bee Mountain tower." (The Raleigh Register)
December 2, 1962: "Four new forest fires were reported in Kanawha County Saturday and crews were srill fighting two other fires that began Friday two other fires that began Friday night in the Cabin Creek area of the county.
Thomas Dempsey, forest fire observer at Bee Mountain fire tower, said all the blazes were under control Saturday night." (Sunday Gazette-Mail)
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