BUCK HILL
Alger County - State Department of Conservation
48N-16W-31
48N-16W-31
October 27, 1935: "In Alger county twenty miles east of the city is located the Buck Hill fire tower. The two men employed here for six summers inhabited a small dilapidated shack which had been one of the buildings of a camp which had performed logging operations at Buck Hill a number of years before. This summer it was found that the cabin has reached an almost uninhabitable stage so orders were given for construction of a new cabin.
The state Civilian Conservation Corps camp is located at Cusino, not far from the Buck Hill location and from this camp came the laborers who built the new cabin. The cabin is truly a wonderful piece of workmanship especially when one considers that every bit of work done on the building was by unskilled labor, by boys who had hardly handled carpenter's tools before. The main room is built of logs twelve by 20 feet, stained a deep brown and a kitchen of ten by twelve feet logs was also built. A small porch attached to the large living room was added and as a final touch a finely constructed chimney of cobblestones was built large enough to be formed into a fireplace." (The Escanaba Daily Press)
The state Civilian Conservation Corps camp is located at Cusino, not far from the Buck Hill location and from this camp came the laborers who built the new cabin. The cabin is truly a wonderful piece of workmanship especially when one considers that every bit of work done on the building was by unskilled labor, by boys who had hardly handled carpenter's tools before. The main room is built of logs twelve by 20 feet, stained a deep brown and a kitchen of ten by twelve feet logs was also built. A small porch attached to the large living room was added and as a final touch a finely constructed chimney of cobblestones was built large enough to be formed into a fireplace." (The Escanaba Daily Press)
1943-44: “A tower cabin of the portable type was constructed from salvaged material and placed at Buck Hill tower.” (Twelfth Biennial Report, The Department of Conservation)